[TowerTalk] Swinging Gate Side Mount - Additional Turning Radius?

[Dick]

The top bearing is just a larger diameter PVC coupling Ubolted to an angle iron..




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> From: Jim W7RY <jimw7ry at gmail.com>
>To: dick at ny1e.com; towertalk at contesting.com 
>Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 11:14 PM
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Swinging Gate Side Mount - Additional Turning Radius?
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>Yup! That works too. How did you handle the "bearing" above the rotor?  Just a short piece of pipe larger than the mast? Most folks don't have a lower mast support for their Ham-4 or Tailtwister though.. :)
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>Jim W7RY
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>From: "Dick" <dick at ny1e.com>
>Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 5:54 PM
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>Subject: [TowerTalk] Swinging Gate Side Mount - Additional Turning Radius?
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>> I don't like the swinging gate from IIX. Here's why.  The mounts only clamps
>> to ONE leg of the tower. You have to tighten the U bolts too tight to get
>> the mount not to turn. This puts way too much pressure onto the leg.
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>> I like a design that I found here:
>> http://www.arraysolutions.com/Products/sidemountusersguide1.htm  It Uses
>> angle iron to connect to two legs of the tower. There is no possibility of
>> slippage so you don't have to over tighten the U bolts.
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>> Array solutions seems to be over engineered for most antennas, My homebrew one is a compromise:
>> http://www.ny1e.com/smount.jpg
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