[TowerTalk] turnbuckle safety wires

[Dave Sublette]

Yesterday, my good friend, N4TY, and I finished putting up my Rohn 55 rotating tower, 155 feet.  Today(3 hours ago) I finished going around a checking all the turnbuckles.  Every one had jam nuts on both ends.  I bought all of these 29 years ago.  They are all genuine Rohn.  They held this same tower up in a 200 foot configuration for 28 years.  Last year I had it taken down and reconfigured with the rotator at the 5 foot level and topped it off at 155 feet because I didn’t want to buy another guy ring  and I don’t need to be climbing to 200 feet at age 76.  I suspect volunteers to climb will be happier not having that extra 50 feet.  

So — yes — the jam nuts are there and were standard Rohn parts 29 years ago.

Dave, K4TO
> On Sep 24, 2017, at 7:05 PM, Ve3ne <ve3ne at rogers.com> wrote:
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> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2017 18:59
> To: Jim Thomson; towertalk at contesting.com <mailto:towertalk at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] turnbuckle safety wires
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> 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.
>> 
>> Jim VE7RF
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