[TowerTalk] rohn botlts/nuts question

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Following the thread about 'innies & outties'.

Overtightening will squish the tower legs.

In my business of high angle construction, we didn't overtighten the nuts on our 
scaffolding.
They were tough enough to get apart after a year of weather.

So we 'double-nutted' the 5/16th bolts that went through the pipe scaffold legs.

On Chicago's Downtown Loyola campus, we had more pipe scaffold then on the Statue of 
Liberty. Ground to top, not one nut/bolt came out.

Does anyone think this approach would be useful in tower work?


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