[TowerTalk] TX-472 motor

Mon Feb 27 12:58:22 PST 2012

First try a big drill, like a Milwaukee right angle VSR model.

Rick N6RK

On 2/27/2012 12:55 PM, Wayne Crawford wrote:
> Greetings!
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> Has anybody here done a retrofit motor drive to run a TX-472 up. I did a modification on the hand winch with a coupling nut on both the tower and raising fixtures. Using a drill I am able to get the raising fixture to lift the tower up quite nicely. However the tower itself just weighs too much for the same drill to run the tower up. The drill won't budge it. I was thinking of using an impact wrench but am not certain if this would be appropriate.
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> thoughts!
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> Thanks&  73
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> Wayne C.
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