A local ham told me to get some heavy duty hood springs from a 1950-1960's car and put them between my guy wire equalizer plates and earth anchors. This is to "prevent backlash" during storm force wi
In a word ... DON'T. Let him be the one to prove the 'wisdom' of this idea on HIS tower setup there. 73 de Billy, AA4NU --Original Message-- _______________________________________________ __________
Yep, bunch of bull. If you put a spring between your guys and the anchor, then they won't develop any more force to hold the tower up when the wind blows than when everything's quiet. Either you'll h
Flirtin' with disaster... -Mike A local ham told me to get some heavy duty hood springs from a 1950-1960's car and put them between my guy wire equalizer plates and earth anchors. This is to "prevent
If anything any spring with less tension than the working strength of the guy line it'd make it worse. At or higher strength springs would be useless. IOW I agree, if ROHN had wanted them they'd be t
car and put them between my guy wire equalizer plates and earth anchors. You bet. This is a particularly stupid idea. Is there anything like this that's even suggested by the manufacturer? No way. By
I remember some folks using springs like this in their rotor to mast connection ala Back Lash....maybe somewhere down the line the story was mis-understood and the coils migrated to guy cables -- sca
You're right. The fact that the guys aren't straight lines (they're catenaries) means that as the load increases they get a bit longer, just like a spring. Why put another device in series with the s
There is actually more to it than that Jim. Whenever there is a combination of a spring, a mass and a dampening source there is the prospect of dynamic oscillation. In so cases the potential oscillat