[TowerTalk] My first introduction to guy-wire dead end grips

[john at kk9a.com]

The EHS looked better than the grips. The Phillystran held up fine,
except it also had grips with corrosion. 

John KK9A 

On 2016-01-08 11:17, Kevin Kidd wrote: 

> John,
> 
> How did the grip corrosion compare to the guy cable itself?
> 
> My tower guy ran into a situation where he was installing a 180ft tower kit for a client and found some of the grips were already showing signs of corrosion out of the barrel... He learned that the tower builder had substituted off shore built wraps for their normal stock and the galvanization was dramatically inferior to their normal stock.
> 
> He also noted that the inferior grips were noticeably stiffer than whatever he normally used. I don't know if that would be good or bad... 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:26 AM, john at kk9a.com <john at kk9a.com> wrote:
> 
>> he only Big Grips that I have seen close to failure were installed on my
>> tower in Aruba. After four years they were badly corroded and I could
>> break the strands with my fingers.
> 
> Kevin C. Kidd, CSRE/AMD
> AM Ground Systems Company - WD4RAT
> kkidd at kkbc.com -- 866-22-RADIO -- 866-227-2346
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