[TowerTalk] Re Plumbing a Tower

[Gene Fuller]

Clearly, each leg same angle AND same length.     Gene / W2LU

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Gilbert" <xdavid at cis-broadband.com>
To: "Gary "Joe" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield at hotmail.com>
Cc: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Re Plumbing a Tower


> 
> 
> It's actually quite simple ... you just make sure all three legs are at 
> the same angle.  That assumes, of course, that the tower is straight, 
> which I accomplished with a taut string as described in an earlier 
> post.  There's nothing unique about a tapered tower ... the legs still 
> need to be straight and each leg needs to have the same angle.  That's 
> all there is to it.
> 
> I trued my tower by building "feet" for the base out of concrete block 
> and angle iron, and clamping the base to the angle iron with C-clamps.  
> I adjusted each leg one at a time until the angles were all the same 
> (89.1 degrees in my case), and then drilled holes and put bolts in them 
> to replace the C-clamps that I didn't trust to survive the concrete pour.
> 
> http://www.ab7e.com/AB7E_Tower_Page_4.html
> 
> http://www.ab7e.com/AB7E_Tower_Page_5.html
> 
> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/30/2010 7:46 PM, Gary "Joe" Mayfield wrote:
>> Okay, I'll finally ask.  How do you true up the tapered self-supporting
>> tower?
>>
>> 73,
>> Joe kk0sd
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