[TowerTalk] How to stiffen a mast

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Combining wood with metal will damp resonant responses and will reduce 
peak stresses.  73 de WO0W

MIKE GREENWAY wrote:

>snip - I asked a structual engineer afterward about doing this and he said
>they sometimes combine wood with metal to increase the strength.  Whether it
>is worth doing or not I cannot say but it made me feel a lot better.73 Mike
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