[TowerTalk] Motorizing a TX-472

[Joe Giacobello]

Has anyone ever motorized the tilt-over winch on an LM-470 or similar 
tower?  If so, I'd be interested in knowing how you did it.  I know a 
friend of mine once fabricated his own tilt tower that was perfectly 
balanced around the pivot points so that he could tilt it by just 
manually pulling up on the base and pushing it into a horizontal 
position.  Maybe counter weighting the LM-470 so it was more balanced 
might allow a motorized winch to do the same thing easily.  Just curious 
what you mechanical gurus have done on this front.

73, Joe

Paul Playford wrote:

>KI7NF wrote an article "Motorizing Your Crank-up Tower Isn't Difficult"
>which appears to be exactly what you want.
>
>Sorry, I do not know which magazine it was published in or the year (maybe
>1997).  All I have is it starts on page 151.
>
>Perhaps a google search will lead to where the info may be found on the web.
>The .TIF files come to a little over 4 Mb and if necessary I can email them
>to you as attachments.
>
>de Paul, W8AEF
>
>The .TIF images come to about 4Mb so
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Dan Bookwalter" <n8dcj at yahoo.com>
>To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
>Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 12:01 AM
>Subject: [TowerTalk] Motorizing a TX-472
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>>Ok.... i just hand cranked my TX-472 up, its 80F and
>>60% humidity and am now soaking wet... i am also a
>>little overweight , lazy and short on cash . so whats
>>the most economical way to motorize this thing... i
>>have access to a 1HP motor , maybe even one a little
>>bigger.
>>
>>Any Ideas ??
>>
>>Dan N8DCJ
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