[TowerTalk] Pull Down Cable Issues

[Mike]

Never happened to me hi hi.

Looks like you have thought of everything through okay, and yes use another person to tightly wind the cable on the drum.

I use three clamps at the bottom of my cable after the turnbuckle, remember that the spring should be completely compressed (maximum tension) when in the relaxed position when you put the clamps back on.

Mike, K6BR

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From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill Gaines
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 2:52 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Pull Down Cable Issues

While walking the dogs in the back yard this afternoon I noticed a pile of cable inside the base of my LM-470D tower. The pull down cable which terminates in a turnbuckle at the bottom of the top section of tower has worked itself loose and came all the way down. What I am thinking about in fixing what has happened is this: I wait for a time with absolutely no breeze. Slowly lower the tower as I normally would do. It is simply resting on the raising cable so gravity should do it�s thing and cause it to slide down as it normally would. My question is this. Shouldn't I have someone with me to make sure the now piled up lowering cable gets wound up on the drum as it normally would do? Anything I am overlooking?

Surely I am not the first one this has happened to? I also know now to wire the turnbuckle to insure it doesn�t happen again. I just want to be certain there isn�t something I am overlooking before I do it.

Thanks in advance

Bill AD8P

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