[TowerTalk] strange rotor problem

[Peter Chadwick]

My expereince has been (with both those rotators) that for a reason I can't explain, they end up full of filthy black dust, and the balls corrode. When I have occasion to take either tower down (which isn't very often), I always remove the  rotator, and wash the innards with WD40 - done outside! This also gets the old grease out, although an old [paint brush helps. I don't worry about losing the balls, since they're generally corroded, and I have a large bag of 3/8 inch balls, which cost around  3cents apiece. Because any loss of the balls wouldn't matter, I never lose any, of course.....
One problem I have had is when feeding the tower as a vertical with the beams top loading, the RF current has burnt up a direction indicator pot. So bypassing the pot (use physically big capacitors to handle the RF current) and having a metal flexible strap connecting stub mast to tower seems helpful.
73
Peter G3RZP





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Message Received: Apr 02 2006, 04:34 AM
From: Cqtestk4xs at aol.com
To: TOWERTALK at contesting.com
Cc: 
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] strange rotor problem

In a message dated 4/2/06 12:08:54 A.M. Greenwich Standard Time, 
jacobsen_5 at msn.com writes:

Bill. Normal cleanup and bearing lube of what??? Tower bearing?? or 
Tailtwister??

I sure hope you didn't put any lube in the thrust bearing. It is a no-no 
according to Rohn. from personal experience I have seen the goo that forms 
when these things are lubricated. 

Bill K4XS





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