[TowerTalk] Galvanizing ChromeMoly?

[ersmar at comcast.net]

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     For my CM mast, I used a painting mitt on the exterior, and pulled a paint-soaked rag through the inside of the mast several times with a rope twice as long as the mast.  

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F


> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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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