[TowerTalk] tower painting

[Dan Cisson]

Its true, to start at the top of the tower, and what I did was paint the 
international orange one day, and 2 days later paint the white....most 
towers are 7 equal bands of color,, starting in international orange at the 
tower base,, and ending in orange at the top,, 3 bands of white in between.
  One very interesting thing, I am sure that others that have painted a lot 
have had this happen---when a radio station has FM bays at the top,, and 
they go down to their low power level,, when working in that RF field around 
the bays,,everything metallic gets warm or hot that you have on you...the 
paint bucket handle,, your belt buckle, zipper, safety belt parts,, I had a 
pocket knife in my pocket-it got warm.
  I painted with a mitt just as some others have said...It takes a couple 
days typically to get a tower prepped and ready to paint ....73,, Dan N4GNR

-----Original Message----- 
From: Wayne Kline
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 7:34 PM
To: foxbw at comcast.net ; towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] tower painting

That true...... I have  one tower  Harness and  lanyards just dedicated to 
Tower Paining ....

I usually wear a LIGHT long sleeve shirt with the cuffs taped below my wrist

and silver bullet   you have to wear off  your skin.... I had to go to a 
school function one evening and I keep my hands in my pockets... or they 
would think I was the
TIN MAN  !

Wayne W3EA


> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:50:22 +0000
> From: foxbw at comcast.net
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] tower painting
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> I have seen commercial tower painters at work:  the ones I saw started at 
> the top, had rather large buckets of paint and huge fleece-like mittens 
> which they used as paint brushes.  Just stuck both hands in the bucket 
> (after tying off) and ran their hands up and down the tower legs, braces 
> and everything attached thereto.  Needles to say, by the time they get to 
> the ground they are splattered red and white.
> Barry - W1HFN
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