[TowerTalk] turnbuckle safety wires

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From: Grant Saviers
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2017 18:59
To: Jim Thomson; towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] turnbuckle safety wires

Jam nuts (on both LH :& RH threads) are common but not universal on 
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rigging tensions. Then silicon)))55 ‎. 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 inst !:@:6'll 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.
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> Jim VE7RF
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