[TowerTalk] TowerTalk Digest, LM-470 Installation Info Needed

[Terrence R. Redding Ph.D.]

Bill, do you have the raising and tilting fixture?

I seem to recall that you use the same pulley in the upper position to raise
the tower and the lower position to tilt the tower.

First, with the pulley in the upper position, to lift the tower from
horizontal to vertical within the fixture, bolt the pivot points of the
tower to the fixture, and then reposition the pulley from the upper position
to the lower position.  From the lower position the pulley controls the tilt
of the tower.  But it is the same pulley.

Terry - W6LMJ


On 10/22/08 12:29 AM, "towertalk-request at contesting.com"
<towertalk-request at contesting.com> wrote:

> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:37:22 -0400
> From: "Bill Gaines AD8P" <ad8p at wcoil.com>
> Subject: [TowerTalk] LM-470 Installation Info Needed
> To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
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> 
> I have my "new-to-me" LM-470 bolted to the raising fixture and resting in a
> horizontal position. I have been looking at the manual I have and it says to
> run the raising cable up thru the upper pulley on the raising fixture then
> down to the tower thru a 4" pulley and back to the original pulley on the
> fixture. The drawings show a sort of bracket that is holding this pulley and
> the bracket encompasses the pulley in such a way it would be nearly impossible
> to bind up. I don't think I have this bracket. I have 2- 5" pulleys but I
> thought they would mount on the raising fixture. I also have a few
> extra-but-used 3.5" pulleys and no bracket. Do I need this bracket? Or can I
> simply put a bolt thru the pulley and use the small cable assembly that came
> with it to loop around the tower leg to secure the pulley to the tower?
> 
> I just wanna do it right so I am asking.
> 
> Bill AD8P