TT:
For my CM mast, I used a painting mitt on the exterior, and pulled a
paint-soaked rag through the inside of the mast several times with a rope twice
as long as the mast.
73 de
Gene Smar AD3F
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "doc" <kd4e@verizon.net>
> To: <TowerTalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 10:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Galvanizing ChromeMoly?
>
>
> > sabrams@nycap.rr.com wrote:
> >> If you spray it in place you will never get the mast out of the bearing.
> >> I have a 3" mast that I spray painted and it would not fit onto my
> >> precision 3" bearing. I had to take the bearing to a machine shop and
> >> have it turned out a couple of thousandths to get the mast in. GL 73
> >> Saul K2XA
> >>
> >> P.S. Spraying the mast won't protect the inside of the mast. No big
> >> deal, but you will get rust stains below it.
>
> Painting the inside is almost as easy as painting the outside. (before it's
> installed)
> I capped one end of 40 feet, thinned out some paint, poured in a quart,
> capped that end, and then tipped the pipe back and forth while rotating it.
> After making sure the entire inside was coated, I set it on an angle to
> drain. I removed the caps from both ends to let the air circulate through.
> On steel I used plain old Rusoleum primer.
>
> Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
> N833R, World's Oldest Debonair (S# CD-2)
> www.rogerhalstead.com
>
> >
> > OK re. watching out for tower bearing tolerances -- I first
> > have to drive the bent pipe out, will then check the
> > clearances! I am guessing it may now have a little more
> > play in it than before!
> >
> > Since freezing is not an issue can I not cap the top and bottom
> > of the mast, removing the internal rust concern?
> >
> > (It will be on a tiltover so no problem removing an end cap
> > if/when the mast needs to be moved.)
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e
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