[TowerTalk] Rohn 25G - Metal cap in the leg?

[Tower2sell@aol.com]

In a message dated Fri, 16 Jun 2000  3:33:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Bill Coleman AA4LR <aa4lr@radio.org> writes:

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Last night, I was cleaning up a used Rohn 25AG3 pointy top in preparation 
to spot-regalvanize it prior to installation this summer.

In one of the legs, I noticed something entirely blocking the leg about 
12" up from the bottom of the section. With a screwdriver, I managed to 
pry it out of the leg.

It was a metal cap, which I think was originally part of the assembly, 
but it had become corroded through exposure to the elements.

Looking at my four other used sections of 25G, I found such metal caps in 
a few of the sections, totally 4 caps in 12 legs. (One section has 2, two 
have 1, one has none)

My question is -- what are these things? Are they something to hold the 
hardware for the sections? 



<Bill Coleman

You are correct. They are end caps to hold the joint bolts in during shipping. Someone forgot to remove them during assembly. That is why ROHN now use a blue plastic plug.

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