In a message dated 4/13/01 5:18:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
teamw@quixnet.net writes:
> You don't have to go through the tedium of brush painting a tower with a
> new coat of paint. Paint stores sell pairs of wooly surfaced gloves for
just
> this type of job. You just dip your gloved hands in the paint wipe off the
> surplus and stroke or caress your tower elements. Probably feels good too?
> I did not use this method and did it the hard way which took several
> Saturdays on a 70 ft crank-up, but a friend W6MVV/4 did and breezed through
> it in an afternoon on a comparable tower.
> Rohn's catalog has them as "Paint Mitt with thumb" Part Nr. ETPM.
This is how many commercial towers are painted orange and white.
Cheers, Steve K7LXC
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