[TowerTalk] New Tower Old Base

[Michael Goins]

Even if unguyed, Steve? Surely not.

Mike, k5wmg
Pipe Creek, Texas
A thousand words a day. Five days a week. For life.

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On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:57 AM, <K7LXC at aol.com> wrote:

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> In a message dated 2/8/2011 5:58:35 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> towertalk-request at contesting.com writes:
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> >  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.
>
>
>    This is covered in my UP THE TOWER book  (available from
> _www.championradio.com_ (http://www.championradio.com) ).    As  is a
> picture of the XE2DV
> super station on the Sea Of Cortez.
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>    In short (assuming the existing base is big  enough for the new tower),
> rent an impact hammer and an appropriate sized  diamond drill bit (for
> cutting any possible rebar) and drill where the new  holes go.
>
>    Blow the dust out of the holes (a big straw or  can of compressed air
> work FB), use contractor's epoxy in the hole, wait for  it to cure and
> you'll
> be good to go. You'll need a special 2-barreled gun for  the 2-barreled
> epoxy cartridges. You can probably rent all of these at your  local rental
> store.
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>    Contractors do this every day and the epoxy is  stronger than the
> concrete so no worries about strength.
>
> Cheers & GL,
> Steve       K7LXC
> TOWER TECH
> and
> Champion Radio Products
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