[TowerTalk] FW: Hindsight: Check your rotator bolts

[David Calder]

Same done here. Works great. They stick down a bit but who cares.

73 Dave n4zkf
 

-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Roger (K8RI)
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 4:05 PM
To: wc1m at msn.com
Cc: jeremy at m2inc.com; 'Towertalk'; n5ya at n5ya.com; 'Barry Merrill'
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hindsight: Check your rotator bolts

Dick Green WC1M wrote:
> How do you get double nuts on a bolt that has no nuts to begin with? 
> The bolts screw into threads in the rotor casing. There's no way to 
> double nut them.
>
>   
Sho nuff is. I use longer bolts, put nuts and lock washers on the extended
threads, screw the bolt in the proper distance and then tighten the nut
against the base.  Pretty it's  not, effective it is. <:-))


> 73, Dick WC1M
>
>   

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