[TowerTalk] summary: rotating tower hardware : EU

[TexasRF at aol.com]

A lot of companies in the USA are not educated about shipping out of the  
country and are not responsive to such inquiries. It does seem reasonable to  
expect a reply though, even if is only  "Sorry, we don't export".
 
 There are other issues about payment security as well. Credit cards  seem 
easy and are easy until something goes wrong and the card holder complains  
to his bank. Then the bank simply extracts the $$ from the company's bank  
account and the company is left to fight it out with the customer.
 
For a small company the reward is not high enough to accept the risk in  
most cases.
 
73,
Gerald Williamson K5GW
GM Texas Towers
 
 
 
In a message dated 4/14/2016 10:51:14 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
Richard.Riley at tango.hr writes:

Hi  all,

I promised to provide a summary of the responses I received.   Thanks first 
to KZ1W and N4ZR.
(Grant: I tried to reply to your email  address on several occasions and it 
got bounced... worth checking)

The  recommendations were to shop  at:
http://custommetalworks.com/rts/rts.htm
I have emailed twice (a  month ago) to no avail :(.

Grant also stated "KX0G rings are well  thought out and super duty".  
Emailed here numerous times over last 6mths  ago to no avail :(.

My experience suggests that if a company cannot  answer sales enquiries in 
a week or two, don't expect them to answer  post-sales service claims 
ever... so given I am on the other side of the  planet and a complex and demanding 
customer, I have dropped these  leads.

For guying material, Pete recommended "pultruded fiberglass guy  rod" as 
used at some of PVRC's big stations.  Several hours of Googling  for such in 
Europe yielded "Europe, no points" :(.

So I have concluded  that linearcomposites.com and fibremax.nl are alone 
over here.  I did  poke around the surplus markets in the UK's larger 
shipyards (Plymouth /  Aberdeen), but it's a bit hit and miss given that they may 
have 1000m today  and then none for years...((the same material is used on 
platforms and all  sorts out at sea).

On the ring and base front...well Ranko (4O3A) is  answering his emails, so 
he has a head start on the rest :).

Thank you  all for this one, and for all your banter on the reflector that 
makes for good  bed-time reading ;-).

73 9a1tt

Richard  Riley


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