[TowerTalk] Rohn hardware sizes??

[Stan or Patricia Griffiths]

W0UN--Signal Hill Ranch wrote:

> At 09:05 AM 2001-07-19, you wrote:
>
> >      Does anyone happen to know the leg bolt sizes of Rohn 45 ?   We have
> >been given almost 200 feet of nearly new rohn 45 just to remove it.
> >Inspection shows that in spite of a professional installation, the tower only
> >has 1 set of bolts in each leg......ie: large bolt in some sections....small
> >bolt in others......no idea as to why it was done this way,  but we want it
> >all bolted together to safely disassemble.
> >     Thanks in advance...
> >      Bob   '4t
>
> Bob--
>
> That was NOT a professional installation--I don't care WHO did it.

Wow!  I second that motion!

> OLD Rohn catalog shows 3 ---- 5/16" dia x 2-3/8" long NC bolts
> and 3 ---- 7/16" dia x 2-1/4" long NC bolts per Rohn 45 section.
>
> Rohn has been using SAE bolts more recently with NF threads on
> Rohn 25 -- not sure about 45.

On the shipment of 45G I got from Rohn about two weeks ago, the bolts were coarse
threaded.  I have bolt kits available for 45G in two types of plating.  Look at my web
page:

http://www.reprise.com/antronics/default.asp

Stan
w7ni@easystreet.com




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