[TowerTalk] Rohn Bolts AND nuts - won't mate

[StellarCAT]

Thanks for the replies guys... so this is indeed somewhat new. My last tower, bought new in 2005, did not have these nuts. So its been since then. And I’m sure others would have chimed in if it were anything older than say the last few years so it must be quite a bit new. 

As for buying other  things – like replacement nuts or spray galvanizing – I paid for proper bolt kits and that is what I expect to have. These as far as I can tell with only the one ‘set’ opened are not useable. 

I’ll see if Rohn can replace the nuts with their standard nuts from the past. I never had a problem with them nor have I ever heard of them loosening. The “over-dipped” galvanizing on the old ones, bolts and nuts, already made them stay put when tightened. This is far too much of an overkill. 

Gary 
K9RX


Gary,If I were you, instead of fighting it, I would buy galvanized (tapped oversize) hex nuts and use them instead of the locknuts. I don't know when they started using locknuts, but for decades they did not use them. There are thousands of towers installed without locknuts and without problems as a result.73... Stan, K5GO> On Jan 25, 2016, at 8:03 PM, StellarCAT rxdesign at ssvecnet.com> wrote: 

> Sorry guys – I wasn’t clear ... the issue isn’t the bolt going in the hole. I > have a taper pin and I know how that is done .... the issue is the nut on the > bolt! IT won’t go on. It – the nut, has 3 dimples that Rohn now stamps in to > provide a locking mechanism. But its so aggressive that once the dimpled part > of the nut – the outside of the nut gets to the bolt you’re done turning at > least with the larger bolts. I don’t see how I can turn this without some > form of air wrench and then all the galvanizing is going to be stripped off! > I managed to get the nuts on the small ones in place – small bolts that is – > but it is pretty shiny where the threads are and not sure there’s a great > deal of zinc there. > > Gary > K9RX