[TowerTalk] Reusing guy lines

[Grant Saviers]

Might work.  Might fail.  Who knows when it will be so far off the 
manufacturers recommendations?

Do you have a tension test stand to try this out?  Or rent a half hour 
at a test stand facility to measure the failure tension of 2 or 3 
samples.  Then you will have some data.

Otherwise, guy grips not removed are guy ends that are fine to re-use, 
so with those as one end, use wire clamps on the other end of the EHS piece.

I went through a long and thorough project to re-use 1800' of 25k# old 
style Phillystran.  My Spelter socket termination was proven on my own 
10k# capacity test stand and then on a 100k# commercial one. My 
termination proved as strong as the other 25k# rated components. (see 
Nov/Dec 2014 NCJ for an article I wrote about this)

Would I do it again? NO!  The time invested was excessive, and the cost 
savings in the end was small, even though it was an entertaining and 
educational engineering/science project.  Use new guy grips, they are 
cheap, reliable and far superior to wire clamps.

Grant KZ1W

On 6/13/2016 17:18 PM, Ro Grrr wrote:
> Several of you advise against reusing Big Grips, and while I can understand your trepidation bcuz of the loss of the 'sand' in the fixture, and maybe their 'gripping form', my thoughts are simple.I have a large tower to put up (150' R55) and have plenty of 3/16 and 1/4" guy to support it. Said guys have grips on them and I plan to reuse the grips. However, when I do, I will secure them with the same wire clamps many of you use WITHOUT grips - bend the guy back thru the thimble and secure it with clamps.  So why can I not use clamps ON the grips to assure nothing will move/slip ?!?
> 73RoGrrraka RogerKC8HZ
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