[Towertalk] Grips vs. Clamps (was Huh?!?)
Zyg Skrobanski
af4mp@mindspring.com
Fri, 08 Nov 2002 21:36:58 -0500
At 09:13 PM 11/8/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Until you have to retighten the cable clamps that are located half-way up
>your top guy set. Not having to go up after them ... priceless
OK; but what did people do, not so long ago, when grips were generally
unknown to the ham community? Were all those clamped insulator
installations unsafe? There didn't appear to be a spate of tower collapses.
Granted the grips are nice and elegant, but they are expensive.
If properly installed, do clamps really need to be retightened?
--
Zyg AF4MP
Roswell GA USA