[TowerTalk] Rohn Tower Damage Pictures

[Stan or Patricia Griffiths]

n7ws@azstarnet.com wrote:

> It does look like Firestone--whoops--Rohn is making some bad welds.  I went
> out and looked at four old sections of 25G I have laying in the yard. I
> acquired all of these used from various places at various times.  I saw
> only one broken weld and that was on a top horizontal rung that had the
> crap beaten out of it, probably in trying to separate it from another section.
>
> However in looking at the '25 sections and the 45G foldover that is
> standing up, I notice that a lack of a weld bead in the inside of the
> sections seems to be pretty typical. The "fillet" is mostly zinc and I can
> see how it could crack and in some cases give the impression of a broken
> weld.  That said, a crack in the zinc is a good place for corrosion to
> begin, so it's not a good situation either.
>
> Looks like I should hang on to these old pieces <g>.
>
> 73,
>
> Wes

Hi Wes,

I have also looked at a bunch of other Rohn tower sections and it seems like all
of them only weld the braces to the legs on the outside.

Stan
w7ni@teleport.com


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