[TowerTalk] misaligned vertical towers

[n8de at thepoint.net]

There is a product on the market (reasonably priced below $10) that  
has an 'angle' built into the side.

You place it against the tower leg, and read the 'bubbles'.

Think you should get one and use it on all the tower legs of both towers.

It should tell you exactly what you need to know about verticality.

73
Don
N8DE


Quoting Stan Stockton <wa5rtg at gmail.com>:

> I don't know whether this would work or not - depends on how far off they
> regarding being vertical.  What would happen if you used a four foot level
> and a straight piece of tubing or 2x4 and look at the legs of the towers
> from all sides.  Surely you could tell whether one was off more than the
> other.
>
> 73...Stan, K5GO
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Steve K7AWB <k7awbgoog at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I have two towers up.  A 90 foot Rohn 45 with a 6-el 20 meter beam on it
>> and
>> a 102 foot Rohn 25 without anything on it yet.  Both are guyed.  In putting
>> them up, a group of us used a Loos tension meter and our eyesight at the
>> bottom of each tower to make them vertical.
>>
>> But when I look and align the two towers next to each other by walking
>> around until they are "next" to
>> each other, one or both are off vertically with respect to each other.
>>
>> How do I figure which is straight and which is off or maybe both are
>> slight off?
>> I really don't want to climb them now in the bad weather and drop a plumb
>> bob and do not have a survey level.  They are really 135 feet apart.
>>
>> 73
>> Steve Sala
>> K7AWB
>> DN17es
>> Nine Mile Falls, WA
>>
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