[TowerTalk] Help ID Tower and Dealing with Rust

[Richard Solomon]

I wouldn't be so cavalier about these tower sections ... after all, a
10' section
of 25G weighs 40#.

Now if the only thing holding it together is the rust, well, that's a
different story.

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 8/9/11 5:56 PM, J. Dolson wrote:
>>
>> Gentlemen,
>>
>> I weighed one of the 10' tower sections and found it to be 40 lbs.  This
>> seemed a bit heavy for an aluminum tower, so I put a magnet on the section
>> and it does attract a magnet.
>>
>> Does this mean that it's steel?  Any idea what type of steel towers are
>> generally made from?
>>
>
> *inexpensive* steel <grin>
>
>
> realistically, it's some normal cold rolled steel of some sort (a 1xxx
> series) that's easy to weld and form.  It's not like they're going to
> make it out of 4160 Chrome Moly or some exotic Maraging steel.
>
> The strength comes mostly from the shape/lattice
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