[TowerTalk] Recabling info needed for US Tower HDX-589

[W8AEF]

I had a similar experience when the drive chain broke on a friends 
HDX-589.  Incredibly poor design to put the weakest link (the chain) in 
the drive line after the worm drive.

It really makes me appreciate my LM-470 that has a belt drive from the 
motor to a worm gear and the output of the worm gear is welded to the 
cable drum.  If the belt should break nothing will happen.

de Paul, W8AEF

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On 5/22/2012 1:04 PM, Bill Erickson wrote:
> I have had the misfortune of a cable breaking on my US Tower HDX-589. The
> fall from 89 feet to 23 feet didn't hurt it, but the stop at the bottom was
> a killer! I am in the process of fabricating 5 new pulley brackets and
> replacing some of the 2 inch by 1 inch "U" channels that were bent or whose
> welds to the upright tubes were broken.  No problem there. I have been
> unable to get any help whatsoever from US Tower. My cables were damaged in
> the fall/stop so I do not want to trust measurements on them to have new
> cables made. Does any one have the dimensions of the various cables, and a
> cable routing diagram for this tower? Any help would be greatly
> appreciated. I have already missed 2 "Must Have" DxPeditions. Thanks and
> 73,   Bill    N6MXU
>