[TowerTalk] Rohn 25G Harware

[Pete Smith]

At 01:12 PM 10/19/03 -0400, you wrote:


>I think you are going to find that Stan is out of the bolt business. Texas
>Towers may have some Rohn bolt kits.
>
>FWIW, I used the Rohn bolts on some 25G and found they are not galvanized,
>but weakly plated. On 50 foot of tower, many of these sacred Rohn 25G 
>bolts were
>showing rust after only 2 years. This was in NC which is not that harsh an
>environment. On my other tower I used some bolts from McMaster Carr which 
>were
>coated with something they call "Ultracoating". Those bolts were like new 
>when
>we took the tower down this spring.
>
>My conclusion is next time I do used 25G I'll just get a good bolt and won't
>waste too much time worrying about if they came packaged from Rohn or not.
>

Fair enough -- I got mine from W3NRS at US Tower Service in Frederick, 
MD.  They sure were galvanized, and I assumed they were Rohn, but that was 
8 years ago, and none of them are showing any rust.  The important thing is 
to get the right sizes, galvanized, in a Class 5 bolt -- don't use 
stainless unless you're prepared to dope every thread with anti-seize, and 
even then all bets are off if you ever try to remove one without reapplying 
the goop.

73, Pete N4ZR
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