[TowerTalk] Spring between equalizer plate and earth anchor

[Roger (K8RI)]

Drax Felton wrote:
> A local ham told me to get some heavy duty hood springs from a 1950-1960's
> car and put them between my guy wire equalizer plates and earth anchors.
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> This is to "prevent backlash" during storm force winds.
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If anything any spring with less tension than the working strength of 
the guy line  it'd make it worse.  At  or higher strength springs would 
be useless. IOW I agree, if ROHN had wanted them they'd be there.

Roger (K8RI)
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> I think if Rohn didn't engineer it to work that way - then don't.
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> Drax
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