[TowerTalk] US Tower MA 55o MDP

[k7lxc at aol.com]

>  Looking for a manual on recabling  this tower that  has a motor drive . getting ready to re-cable 14 year old tower . This summer
Howdy --
    There ain't one. Tower manufacturers are insurance driven enterprises and are loath to pass along any information that will expose them to liability in case something goes wrong, let alone a manual.

    My question is what are the compelling reasons for replacing the cables? In my experience of 35 years of working on towers including dozens of crank-ups, I've only seen one or 2 instances where the cables actually had to be replaced. The reasons for replacement are: 1) damage to the cable (kinks, flat spots, etc.), 2) excessive broken strands (for your standard 7x19 wire rope you're allowed to have 6 broken strands) and 3) excessive rust (the cancerous kind - not surface rust). So unless you have at least one of those conditions, you're wasting your time and money. I'm just saying.

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