[TowerTalk] TX-455 Engineering Drawings

[Jim Venneman]

Greetings,

Many thanks to all of you who sent me comments last week concerning my plot 
plan question. All were most helpful.

I now have a new problem and not sure how to proceed. Our county's Building 
Dept wants two wet-stamped copies of engineering drawings for the TX-455 
tower with my permit application. I have copies of old engineering drawings 
that were used when the current owner of this tower erecetd it in a 
neighboring county in 1995. Problem is - I am talking about an old U.S. 
Towers TX-455 that was built around 1991-92. The TX-455 now has a different 
design and the company engineer will not wet-stamp the old drawings for me, 
saying that building code requirements have changed and the old tower won't 
comply with existing wind load standards. I don't know whether they are 
telling me the truth or whether they hope that I'll purchase a new TX-455 
instead. They did suggest I try contacting a local engineer for a possible 
wet-stamp on the old drawings. I'm wondering why an engineer would do this 
if the tower is out of compliance, as they say? So - should I try 
sweet-talking the county into accepting my old drawings along with a current 
wet-stamped copy of the updated base diagram or just forget the whole thing 
and start saving my money for the new tower design?

Thanks,

Frustrated in Auburn, Ca.

Jim  -WX6V-

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