[TowerTalk] Force12 rivets

[K8RI on TT]

On 2/18/2011 1:27 PM, Larry stowell wrote:
>
> Barry
> "Single rivet"?  My C31XR had 3 per joint.
My C19XR and an older style WARC-7  also have 3 and none of them are 
blind. They look like conventional pop rivets in a row on the bottom 
with about 3/4" spacing at each joint.

73

Roger (K8RI)
> 73 Larry K1ZW
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Barry
> Gross
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 12:02 PM
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Force12 rivets
>
> Thanks for all the advice!  What I think I'll eventually do when I get the antenna down, is drill
> perpendicular holes one inch proximal (boomward) to all the existing single rivets and add a second
> rivet.
>
> 73, Barry N1EU
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Mickey Baker<fishflorida at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Careful drilling "perpendicular holes" - better to go down the length
>> of the tubing a few cm so as not to provide a weak point in the element.
>>
>>
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