[TowerTalk] Tower design question

[Dick Green]

Never heard that story! Remind me not to climb that tower...

Yet another reason to use a pier-pin base -- you can't install the first
section upside down!

73, Dick WC1M

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jeremy-ca [mailto:km1h at jeremy.mv.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 10:50 AM
> To: DMartin560 at aol.com; kc5qbc at swbell.net; towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower design question
> 
> Just ask K1AR about that some time! He had to get Rohn to build him a
> shortie "reversal section" .
> 
> Carl
> KM1H
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <DMartin560 at aol.com>
> To: <kc5qbc at swbell.net>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 10:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower design question
> 
> 
> >
> > Rohn products aren't designed that way.
> > As you stack the sections the upper one goes over the lower one.
> > If you aren't doing it that way you are installing them upside down.
> > Just wait till the project calls for a top section or flat plate.
> You get
> > to
> > the top and it won't fit.
> >
> > KG4ADM,  Dwayne
> >
> >
> >
> > Something has been bothering me for a while. With all the discussion
> and
> > problems with tower leg corrosion, filling with water and splitting,
> etc.
> > Why do
> > almost ALL the manufacturers design the joints to telescope inside
> from
> > above
> > which leaves water able to run inside joints and fill tubes? Why not
> > simply
> > invert the connection by telescoping over the bottom section so water
> just
> > runs
> > outside not through the joint. I know there is no difference in joint
> > strength
> > or assembly difficulty, so why?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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