[TowerTalk] turnbuckle safety wires

[N1BUG]

Yes. The turnbuckles on one of my towers came with nuts on both 
sides. It has been long enough that I forget where I obtained those 
turnbuckles. After adjusting tension on all guys I tightened all of 
those nuts. On that tower I did not safety wire the turnbuckles like 
I usually do. Nothing has ever loosened or moved but that might very 
well have been the case without the nuts too.

I will be taking that tower down to be replaced by something 
stronger in the next month or so. This time I will be adding safety 
wires just because it's so easy and cheap.

Paul N1BUG


On 09/24/2017 06:32 PM, Jim Thomson wrote:
> Has anyone seen a turnbuckle that also had nuts or nylocks   on  one or both sides of where each threaded rod screws in ?
> To pull that off, the nuts at one end would have to be reverse threaded.   For a max effort, 4 x nylocks could be used,
> 2 at each end.   But a simple safety wire would be a lot simpler.... like something  made from 10 –12 ga solid steel..and
> fed through everything.   And yes, I have had a turnbuckle come right off...twice, on a previous install back in 1977. It was
> elevated a good 10-12 ft above ground too, so no chance it was vandals.  Why that one turnbuckle and never the other 2 baffles
> me.  The fix was a safety wire fed through everything.
> 
> Jim  VE7RF