[TowerTalk] Glen Martin Voyager Hazer

[J. Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT]

Carl,
Got pictures or diagrammes?

73,
J. Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT
201.314.6964
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-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Carl Smidt
Sent: Saturday, 24 December, 2005 16:03
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Glen Martin Voyager Hazer

I had a metal fabricating friend build, on site, a five foot elevator to 
hold the rotator, thrust bearing and beam, sliding on simple, parallel, barn

door sliders on a free standing 50 foot tower.

Works great, I can work on the antenna, etc., at ground level, no climbing 
and it has served me well for more than 10 years now.

If a storm is pending, I just lower the elevator and hoist it back up again 
afterwards.

73,  Carl  VE9OV


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
To: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist (N6RK)" <richard at karlquist.com>; "Bill Winkis"

<kc4pe at bellsouth.net>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Glen Martin Voyager Hazer


> At 08:43 AM 12/22/2005, Richard (Rick) Karlquist (N6RK) wrote:
>> > Glen Martin informed me today that they no longer offer the
>> > antenna raising hazer for the 45G tower.....
>> >
>> > It was called the "Voyager Hazer"
>> >
>> >
>> > The Voyager Hazer is a tower accessory designed to elevate
>> > antennas up and down the outside of a tower. A separate set of
>> > aluminum track is bolted to the face of the tower. Four sets of
>>
>>I'm not surprised.  The price of the tracks was astronomical,
>>not to mention the price of the Hazer itself.  By the time you
>>got done, you could have bought a crank up tower.  It would be
>>interesting to see what it would cost to homebrew it with steel
>>channel for rails.
>
>
> You can buy (from McMaster Carr or Grainger, for example) all manner of
> nifty wheels and carriages designed to slide or roll along standard
> structural shapes (channels and I beams).  Those shapes are available in
> steel, aluminum, fiberglass, and probably any other material you care to
> name (e.g. Invar, for the amateur interested in dimensional stability, or
> Hastelloy, if you're worried about sulfuric acid corrosion).
>
> Your friendly local ag supply will probably also have tracks and rollers
> for sliding barn doors that could be "repurposed" to a vertical 
> application.
>
> For a smooth running high load capacity setup, you can use arrangements of
> ballbearing skateboard wheels running on pipe (this is used in the film
> industry for smooth camera dollies).  Three wheels in a triangle grip the
> pipe, for a single rail, or, if you've got two rails, you can use 4 
> wheels,
> 2 on each pipe.  The pipe can be either regular old black iron, galvanized
> steel (fence posts?), or aluminum tubing.
>
>
>>Rick N6RK
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See: http://www.mscomputer.com  for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless
Weather Stations", and lot's more.  Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with any
questions and ask for Sherman, W2FLA.

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