[TowerTalk] "Stubborn" tower section

[Wayne Kline]

Brian

 

  This is a common problem problem and it is  sure is better to test fit on the ground then in the air. I use a dead blow hammer on the rungs and a peice of 1.125 od   250 wall steel tubing inserted in the leg  on Rohn 25 & 45... While in the AIR ..  it's just the dead blow to get  one the legs are started, Newton's  law of gravitiy & firm rocking usually with one or two legs  located via drift pins.

 

YMMV

 

73's  Wayne W3EA

 


 
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:59:47 -0400
> From: nekvtster at gmail.com
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] "Stubborn" tower section
> 
> I purchased eight sections of used Rohn 25G last summer and it's finally
> going up. While test fitting the sections, I find that I have one "stubborn"
> section - it will not go onto nor will it accept any of the other sections
> without the application of considerable force. (This seems like a strange
> combination; one would think that if the "female" leg bottoms were smallish
> vis a vis accepting "male" leg tops, then it's own leg tops would be
> smallish, too, and easily accepted by the "other" sections.)
> 
> Since it's not a perfect world, there must be some customary means of
> dealing with an errant section like this. Does one use clamps or a jack and
> pulleys to exert the needed force?
> 
> 73 -- Brian -- K1LI
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