[Towertalk] US Tower TX 472MDP Raising Fixture

K7LXC@aol.com K7LXC@aol.com
Tue, 3 Sep 2002 19:49:50 EDT


In a message dated 9/3/02 4:04:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time, K3SV@aol.com 
writes:

> I am helping a ham with a TX472 that has a new Raising Fixture, TRX 80HD.  
It 
> 
>  is attached and ready to use, lowering the nested tower for maintenance 
and 
>  antenna work.  The raising fixture has never been used and I am looking at 
>  the gear box wondering what keeps the tower from "taking off" when you 
start 
> 
>  to let it down. There appears to be a clutch mechanism in the gear box 
that 
>  will prevent the tower from lowering itself at a high rate of speed.  Has 
>  anyone used one of these? and is the clutch mechanism the "safety" device 
>  during lowering, or is there something I am missing.

    Nope. Everything is internal and works FB. I haven't seen any failures 
for any reason although I'm sure there are some stories out there. 

Cheers,
Steve    K7LXC
TOWER TECH