[TowerTalk] Tower mast..

JC Smith jc-smith at comcast.net
Mon Sep 18 20:15:58 EDT 2006


Hi Joe,

If you really want to run a mast all the way to the bottom of the tower I'd
go find a used thrust bearing (the kind that's designed to support both
axial and radial loads) at the junkyard for it to set on and use a rotor
shelf, which you can use later when you get a real rotor, to secure it to
the bottom of the tower.  That steel ball sounds a little hokey to me.
You'll need to design some sort of decent brake to keep it from wrapping up
your coax.  Why not just buy a decent rotor?  Can't add too much to the cost
of the project when you figure in all that extended mast stuff.

73 - JC, K0HPS

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Merlin-7 KI4ILB
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 2:58 PM
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Subject: [TowerTalk] Tower mast..

I have been thinking about setting up my rhon 45 tower and have been
dwelling a bit on the mast.
 I was thinking about having the mast go thru the tower all the way to
ground level and placing the rotor there.
 I was also thinking about placing a big steel ball of somekind in the
bottom of the mast that would rest in a divot at the towers base. That would
take a lot of the weight load off of the Thrust Bearings.

 What do you think?
 Joe
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