[TowerTalk] aluminum mast again

[steve sala]

Do you remember what the 24 foot aluminum mast
weighed?  I was quoted $5.90 a foot from Alcobra
locally but I did not get the weight.  I have a 23.5
foot steel mast that weighs 98 lb and that is pretty
heavy to work with.
Steve K7AWB

--- KI7WX at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/2/2003 2:47:07 PM Pacific
> Standard Time, K4IA at aol.com 
> writes:
> 
> 
> > I used a 1 1/2 inch 6061 with 1/4 wall and it
> seemed very "whippy" to me.  
> > It 
> > is also not that light and is expensive.  24 feet
> cost me $250.  2" would be 
> > 
> > even more expensive by a big margin. 
> 
> Last week I purchased a 24 foot length of 6061-T6 2"
> OD x 0.250" wall tube 
> for $10 a foot (shipped right to my door in a
> residential neighborhood) from TW 
> Metals. If I had been close enough to one of their
> yards to do a will-call 
> pick-up it would have been only $7 a foot ($168 for
> the 24 foot tube).
> 
> Be aware that buying tubing in single lenghts is the
> most expensive way to 
> obtain this material. If you can originate a group
> buy with a couple other 
> fellows you can reap significant savings.
> 
> For the OP - If it were my tower I would just spend
> the money on a 1026 DOM 
> galvanized tube and consider it money well spent on
> a long term investment.
> 
> YMMV
> 
> Mark
> KI7WX
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