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Re: [TowerTalk] Screw Anchor Question

To: k0dan <k0dan@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Screw Anchor Question
From: Bill Coleman <aa4lr@arrl.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:13:48 -0500
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On Jan 16, 2006, at 2:16 PM, k0dan wrote:

> The tower NEVER moved or
> wobbled; retensioning of guywires never was necessary due to anchors
> "floating", occasional retensioning only due to stretch of the wires
> themselves It was a great installation. But, once that slow, hidden  
> galvanic
> action went past a critical point, BOOM!

Can't one use a sacrificial anode to avoid exactly this sort of  
galvanic action?

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901

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