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[Towertalk] Pouring base of tower

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Subject: [Towertalk] Pouring base of tower
From: kb9cry@attbi.com (kb9cry@attbi.com)
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:24:08 +0000
Hilti    Do a google search.
> So if I understand this post correctly, I can drill holes in my old tower
> base, epoxy in some threaded rods, and use it as a base for my new tower....
> right? If so, does anyone have a name and source for the epoxy material?
> Jerry K3BZ
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Jim White, K4OJ
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 12:34 AM
> To: Guy Olinger, K2AV
> Cc: K7LXC@aol.com; TowerTalk
> Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Pouring base of tower
> 
> 
> ...ANOTHER COMMERCIAL SITUATION WHERE MULTIPLE PIECES OF CONCRETE ARE
> USED IS PILINGS
> 
> There are pilings made out of reinforced condrete driving into the
> ground which end up supporting commercial structures....
> 
> Sometimes these pilings have to go very deep before they hit bedrock and
> become solid enough that the weight of a building will not cause them to
> sink and the building fall over....
> 
> These are typicall reinforced concrete sticks.....they are pounded into
> the ground like XXX ground rods when they get so low that they run out
> of rod and the ability to withstand weight is still ionsufficient they
> glus on another one... that's right - with construction epoxy the stick
> another one on the end of the embedded XXX(s) ... and if that one ends
> up being driven its entire length and they still don't have enought
> resistance, on goes another....
> 
> Construction epoxies are not that uncommon anymore - while the
> quantities needed for a tower pad of two pour is significant enough to
> buy in bulk - freqently used anchoring systems for threded rod used to
> anchor the base of a house wall is sold in caulking type tubes for use
> with a special gun that handles the two part mix bia two plungers acting
> in unison to squeeze out the adhesive and hardener simultaneously when
> the handle is squeezed (smaller sized offerings are in double barrle
> syringes for "one bolt" emergency operations) - this has becoime cheaper
> than the old school method of setting anchor bolts in the wet slab and
> then drilling the plate at the bottom of the wall to match....a guy in
> the field with the rigth tools can march right down the line drilling
> the locations for the "to be eposies" thraded rods....
> 
> As is true of most adhesives - when correctly applied they are actually
> stronger than what they hold together!
> 
> 73,
> 
> Jim, K4OJ
> 
> 
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