[TowerTalk] TowerTalk Digest, Vol 126, Issue 35

[Larry Stowell]

I know the tower fans don’t like aluminum towers BUT

I have a 75 HD Aluma tower and all their crank up towers have a stop, at 
each horizontal cross member, spring loaded and releases with a cable.

works like a charm My tower is 12 years old and I just replaced the release 
cable last fall(the original was some kind of cord)

73 Larry K1ZW


The amateur tower market is small and very price sensitive, in general.
Think about it: rather than put a motor that costs a few hundred bucks
on the thing, they install a hand crank.

Towers made for other uses DO have locks.



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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:28:08 -0700
From: Bob K6UJ <k6uj at pacbell.net>
To: "TOWERTALK at contesting.com reflector" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] How to apply lube to HDX589
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Bert,

Sounds like a good option to me Bert.  I guess it is a cost issue with the 
tower company.
They would need to charge more for the locking device addition and would 
this addition
have a positive impact on sales ?  Maybe they could offer this an option.

The bigee for me is the cables and sheaves.  I would like to see an option 
(which I would gladly
pay for) to have stainless steel cables and sheaves with zerk fittings so I 
could grease them regularly with my grease gun
like I do the thrust bearings on the mast.  That would be super.   I think 
these options would pay for themselves,
I have hired to have the cables and bad sheaves replaced and it aint cheap 
!!

73,
Bob
K6UJ