[TowerTalk] "Stubborn" tower section

[Robert Chudek - K0RC]

IMO scrapping a good tower section is a total waste of a couple hundred dollars! 

Someone who is putting a tower together for the first time might also want to try "rotating" the stubborn section 120 degrees and try again. There might be one of three alignments that slip together without excessive force.

Also, when I take a tower down, I mark one of the 3 joining legs to help with the reassembly process. I use a can of spray paint and shoot a little color on the junctions as I make my way down the tower before the disassembly.

I would be careful with excessive "lubricating" of the joints. The lubricant can seep out and add to the "slipping factor" when you are climbing the tower.

My mileage varies.

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN



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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:47:53 -0700
From: "Marlon K. Schafer" <ooe at odessaoffice.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] "Stubborn" tower section
To: "Brian Machesney" <nekvtster at gmail.com>, towertalk at contesting.com
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If it were me I'd toss that section and just get a new one.

Something's clearly not right and there's no need to risk a climber's life 
over one tower section.  What are they now, a couple of hundred bucks brand 
new?

Do it right, safety first!
marlon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Machesney" <nekvtster at gmail.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 1:59 PM
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