[TowerTalk] Rohn tower bolts

[Gary "Joe" Mayfield]

Also - you are unlikely to put your wrench inside the tower to tighten the 
bolt.  You want to turn the nut when tightening - turning the bolt will ream 
the galvanizing from the hole.

73,
Joe
kk0sd

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Shutt" <kgshutt at cox.net>
To: <wc1m at msn.com>; "'Roger D Johnson'" <n1rj at adelphia.net>
Cc: "Tower" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Rohn tower bolts


> Again, I concur.
>
> Ken - W5KQ
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dick Green WC1M" <wc1m at msn.com>
> To: "'Roger D Johnson'" <n1rj at adelphia.net>
> Cc: "Tower" <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 11:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Rohn tower bolts
>
>
>>> > What's the deal with putting the bolts in the way Rohn specifies?
>>
>> N1RJ wrote:
>>
>>> The reason is that it's much easier to spot a missing nut if
>>> it's on the outside. A bolt that is inserted from the bottom
>>> and missing it's nut will fall out and the resulting hole
>>> will be obvious to anyone climbing the tower.
>>
>> Aha! That phrasing rings a bell. I knew I'd seen something about this in
>> writing somewhere. Check out page 33 of the 3rd edition of "Tower 
>> Climbing
>> Safety and Rescue", available from ARRL. It talks about checking tower
>> bolts
>> before climbing, and says pretty-much what Roger said. However, the
>> comments
>> specifically refer to angle steel towers with members that are bolted
>> together. The text says hollow rod or round construction presents a
>> different set of unique inspection issues (like checking weep holes to
>> make
>> sure they're open and not leaking a lot of rust.)
>>
>> I'm not so sure missing nuts would be more obvious inside or outside a
>> Rohn
>> 25/45/55 tower. I climbed a friend's 100' Rohn 45 tower yesterday and I
>> have
>> a clear mental image of the nuts on the inside of the tower, yet I can't
>> picture the bolt heads on the outside of the tower. When you climb a 
>> tower
>> like this, you can see all three inside faces, but one outside face is
>> away
>> from you. Perhaps on this type of tower it's better to insert the bolts
>> outside-in, like it seems just about everyone on this reflector has done.
>>
>> Consensus?
>>
>> 73, Dick WC1M
>>
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