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

[Guy Olinger, K2AV]

These plugs are also very bad for keeping water from draining and
creating inside out-of-sight rust-induced weaknesses up the tower, even
if the bottom is configured properly for drainage.

Ugly.

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73, Guy
k2av@contesting.com
Apex, NC, USA

----- Original Message -----
From: <Tower2sell@aol.com>
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Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Rohn 25G - Metal cap in the leg?


>
> In a message dated Fri, 16 Jun 2000  3:33:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Bill Coleman AA4LR <aa4lr@radio.org> writes:
>
> <<
>
> 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.
>
> Tower2sell@aol.com
>
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