[TowerTalk] New Tower Old Base

[Jim W7RY]

What did you have? And what are you going to install?


73
Jim W7RY

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From: "Michael Goins" <wmgoins at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 3:05 PM
Cc: "Towertalk" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] New Tower Old Base

> I can't imagine that being a good idea.
>
> The base that was original extends into the concrete via a welded cage or
> the attachment to other tower (which does the same thing) and is then 
> bolted
> to the tower. I would be surprised if you could drill holes deep enough to
> manage the stress of windloading with just a simple bolt replacement into
> epoxied holes.
>
> Mike, k5wmg
> Pipe Creek, Texas
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> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Richard Zalewski 
> <dick.w7zr at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I will be upgrading my tower and will be using my existing base.  This 
>> will
>> require drilling the existing concrete base and epoxing in some new 
>> bolts.
>> I would be interested in exchanging some emails with someone who has done
>> this.
>>
>>
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>> Tnx es 73
>> Richard W7ZR
>> www.w7zr.com
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