[TowerTalk] Galvanizing ChromeMoly?

[K8RI on Tower Talk]

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From: "doc" <kd4e at verizon.net>
To: <TowerTalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Galvanizing ChromeMoly?


> sabrams at nycap.rr.com wrote:
>> If you spray it in place you will never get the mast out of the bearing. 
>> I have a 3" mast that I spray painted and it would not fit onto my 
>> precision 3" bearing.  I had to take the bearing to a machine shop and 
>> have it turned out a couple of thousandths to get the mast in.  GL  73 
>> Saul  K2XA
>>
>> P.S.  Spraying the mast won't protect the inside of the mast.  No big 
>> deal, but you will get rust stains below it.

Painting the inside is almost as easy as painting the outside.  (before it's 
installed)
I capped one end of 40 feet, thinned out some paint, poured in a quart, 
capped that end, and then tipped the pipe back and forth while rotating it. 
After making sure the entire inside was coated, I set it on an angle to 
drain.  I removed the caps from both ends to let the air circulate through. 
On steel I used plain old Rusoleum primer.

Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
N833R, World's Oldest Debonair (S# CD-2)
www.rogerhalstead.com

>
> OK re. watching out for tower bearing tolerances -- I first
> have to drive the bent pipe out, will then check the
> clearances!  I am guessing it may now have a little more
> play in it than before!
>
> Since freezing is not an issue can I not cap the top and bottom
> of the mast, removing the internal rust concern?
>
> (It will be on a tiltover so no problem removing an end cap
> if/when the mast needs to be moved.)
>
>
> -- 
> Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e
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