[TowerTalk] 8 pin rotor quick disconnects

[Pete Smith]

At 05:11 PM 8/29/03 -0400, Jerry Keller wrote:
>OK, so my elbow-poking comes back into my own ribs... ow!
>Instead of kidding around, I should have taken the time to read further in
>the manual for the Yaesu G-800DXA rotator I'm in the process of installing.
>In the illustration on page 11, it very clearly shows a long 9mm bolt
>(supplied) going through the mast clamps AND through the mast.
>Oh, well, live and learn. :-)


Don't feel bad, Jerry.  Both of mine are pinned, but in each case the idiot 
who drilled the mast got the hole just far enough off line so that I 
couldn't get the bolt through.  I was the idiot in the second case, but the 
first one was a supposed machinist....  I wound up using a smaller diameter 
bolt in each case to do the pinning.  It has worked OK so far (8 years in 
one case).

73, Pete N4ZR
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