Its true, to start at the top of the tower, and what I did was paint the
international orange one day, and 2 days later paint the white....most
towers are 7 equal bands of color,, starting in international orange at the
tower base,, and ending in orange at the top,, 3 bands of white in between.
One very interesting thing, I am sure that others that have painted a lot
have had this happen---when a radio station has FM bays at the top,, and
they go down to their low power level,, when working in that RF field around
the bays,,everything metallic gets warm or hot that you have on you...the
paint bucket handle,, your belt buckle, zipper, safety belt parts,, I had a
pocket knife in my pocket-it got warm.
I painted with a mitt just as some others have said...It takes a couple
days typically to get a tower prepped and ready to paint ....73,, Dan N4GNR
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From: Wayne Kline
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 7:34 PM
To: foxbw@comcast.net ; towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] tower painting
That true...... I have one tower Harness and lanyards just dedicated to
Tower Paining ....
I usually wear a LIGHT long sleeve shirt with the cuffs taped below my wrist
and silver bullet you have to wear off your skin.... I had to go to a
school function one evening and I keep my hands in my pockets... or they
would think I was the
TIN MAN !
Wayne W3EA
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:50:22 +0000
From: foxbw@comcast.net
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] tower painting
I have seen commercial tower painters at work: the ones I saw started at
the top, had rather large buckets of paint and huge fleece-like mittens
which they used as paint brushes. Just stuck both hands in the bucket
(after tying off) and ran their hands up and down the tower legs, braces
and everything attached thereto. Needles to say, by the time they get to
the ground they are splattered red and white.
Barry - W1HFN
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