[Towertalk] Heavy winds...

[Mike Gilmer - N2MG]

You are right.  The twisting force would not be 
helped at all.

I was only considering the sideways force, which while 
present, is, IMO, NOT the primary bolt-loosener.

It is definitely true that the mating of a steel bolt 
into an aluminum body is not an ideal torque- (as in 
bolt tightness) maintaining arrangement.

Mike N2MG

On Tue, 23 April 2002, kb9cry@attbi.com wrote

> 
> Mike, I'm not sure about the effectiveness of the
second 
> bearing.  It would lessen any sideways forces on the 
> rotator but it would not reduce any twisting forces
that 
> are transmitted from the mast to the rotator, as long
as 
> the brake held up.

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