[TowerTalk] Summary re: mating Rohn tower sections
Learning Designs
LDLtd at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 15 00:47:15 EDT 2003
Thanks to everyone for the responses to my query about whether to let
the upper tower sections settle below the existing holes (and punch or
drill new or expanded holes) or to raise the upper section up a few mm,
using the orignal holes and letting the bolts support the full weight of
the tower above them.
The very strong (almost unanimous) consensus seems to be to use the
existing holes; that the bolts (given that there are six at each joint)
are designed to hold the full weight of the tower and that widening the
holes would weaken the tower and invite upward movement when lateral
forces exerted upward pressure on a given leg.
So I will do that. Thanks!
73,
Maury W3EF
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