[Towertalk] Source for prefabricated guys?

[Steve Maki]

K3DI wrote:

>BRIEFLY:  Can anybody point me to a source for prefabricated
>non-metallic guys?  I'm looking for short guys to insulate a
>tower from the metal guys.
>
>BACKGROUND: My second hand tower came with METAL guys already to go
>for guying 100' of Rohn 45 at four levels.  These guys have 3/4 inch
>thimbles at the top and an eye-eye turnbuckle at the lower end.
>The tower uses GA45G torque bars.   However, I would like to insulate
>the tower from the metal guys so that I can disconnect cables and
>grounding and use the tower on 1.8 MHz and 136 kHz as a top loaded
>(C31XR tribander as a "top hat") series fed vertical.
>
>THE PLAN is to add 60 feet of Phillystran (now on site) to the top guys.
>Then purchase short (maybe 5 or 10 feet) guys for use on the lower
>three levels.   These short guy pieces would go between the bolt on
>the GA45G torque bar and the 3/4 inch thimble.
>
>I could make the needed short guys with Phillystran and "Big grips" that
>I already have.  Except, I would like to use ends that are no longer
>than 12" so that with only perhaps 4' of Phillystran I could still reach
>the far end for any maintenance.   (My backup is to forget about trying
>to keep the short guy piece within reach and go with Philly' and
>Big Grips.)   Some decade or more ago, I saw an advertisement for
>made-to-order guys but darned if I can find a source now.
>
>Thanks for any help.  73, Dick Wilder, K3DI  Arnold, MD

Most any maintenance I can think of would require loosening
and dropping the guy in towards the tower anyway, so I'm not
sure what good it will do you, but the Phillystran factory
will make up guy lines to order with "Skelter Socket" terminations
which are very short.

Or: Rohn, Pirod, and others have fiberglass insulators in various
lengths (18", 36", etc.) made for insulating towers from steel
guy systems. Like the Phillystran solution, not cheap.

Porcelan strain insulators should work - not enough voltage
rating?

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Steve K8LX