[TowerTalk] Heights Tower - Separating Aluminum from Steel

[Jerry K3BZ]

Bill... those threaded base sockets are tough to come by. I have that same
old steel clamshell base with the acme screw tiltover arrangement.  You
don't have to sacrifice the sockets.  Just soak them with penetrating oil
and use some wooden 2x4s placed through the tower section below the
bottom-most tower brace, over near the leg, and use a small bottle jack or a
scissor jack sittting on that steel base (or another 2x4) to jack up each
leg until it just moves a little and go to the next, it will be easy. Mine
came loose very easy that way, and didn't destroy the base sockets.

73,  Jerry K3BZ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Tippett" <btippett at alum.mit.edu>
To: <Cqtestk4xs at aol.com>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Heights Tower - Separating Aluminum from Steel


> At 07:49 PM 6/21/05, Cqtestk4xs at aol.com wrote:
>
> >Funny you should ask this.....  Just this morning I removed three of
those
> >pipes from the bottom of a Heights tower.  The whole operation took about
> >15 minutes with my trusty circular saw and a grinding blade.
> >
> >Assuming you don't want to keep the steel stubs
>
>          I actually was trying to save the entire
> thing since the pipes are part of the fold-over
> base which is fairly expensive.  But you bring
> up a good point in that I believe the pipes can
> be replaced by unbolting them from the base
> plate.  Will take a more careful look the next
> time I go up to the site (~75 miles away).
>
>                          Thanks!
>
>                          Bill  W4ZV
>
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