[TowerTalk] TRYLON TITAN 64 SELFSUPPORT

[Gene Smar]

Noel:

     I can answer this one.  I got this tip from Steve K7LXC when I bought my Trylon T-500-64 from him in 2001.  This procedure assumes you are not building each section from pieces, but are assembling factory-built sections into one tower.  

     Construct a T out of wooden material, such as thin shim boards or other scrap.  The T should be big enough so that its three ends can rest on top of the legs of the bottom tower section after the section has been placed into the foundation hole.

     Next, fasten a seven foot long piece of cord or thin rope to the middle of the T.  Be careful:  The center of the T is NOT the center of the vertical piece of the T; it's actually a bit closer to the horizontal piece.  Attach a heavy object to the end of this cord.  I used a pipe wrench.  

     When you have placed the bottom section of the tower into the hole and tried to plumb it (make it perpendicular to the ground) by eye, lay the wooden T on top of the three legs.  The cord and weight should hang down the center of the inside of the tower, able to move freely.

     Stand on one side of the tower and sight through the center of that tower face along the rope to the opposite leg.  If that leg is plumb, the rope will hang parallel to one side or the other of that opposite leg.  If the rope is not parallel, elevate the tower's legs until the rope and side are parallel.  Next, move to another tower face and sight through it to the opposite leg along the rope, move the tower legs, etc.  Keep doing this until the opposite legs are parallel to the rope when sighted through each tower face. 

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F



 
From: VE2RYY <ve2ryy at globetrotter.net>
Date: 2007/05/27 Sun AM 11:16:58 CDT
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] TRYLON TITAN 64 SELFSUPPORT

Hello
I want to instal the first section of a Trylon Titan 64 ft..
How do we put the first section with the level.
I did try to get infos on Trylon site, but found nothing about putting the first section straight?
Thanks
NOEL 
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