[TowerTalk] HDX555 top plate warped - K7LY

[John Keating]

Previous owner had quite a lot of aluminum in the air; enough stiff 
breezes broke the upper mast bracket on the rotator, and the mast spun 
frequently enough to tweak the top plate and the mast shaft between the 
top and second plates out of true. Now, a new top bearing doesn't sit 
precisely flat (gap is only a few .00" or so, mostly on one side) 
causing the new mast to bind in the shaft between the top and second 
plates partway around its rotation. Looking for suggestions as to how to 
carefully force things back into reasonable alignment...anything to 
avoid cutting off and replacing the top plate. Tower is on the ground 
and easy to work on.

John