[Towertalk] Grips vs. Clamps (was Huh?!?)

[Zyg Skrobanski]

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?
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Zyg AF4MP
Roswell GA USA