Beeswax...
Somewhere in my distant past I inherited a 4X3X2 brick of beeswax. It has
followed me on 6 or 7 moves... Damned if I know what to do with it! Maybe
someday I'll wind a transformer... More likely make a candle...
Slippage...
On a brutal ENY hilltop - Original rotator was a TX2. Gears stripped in
about 1 month. Replaced with a Create RB5 something. Mast slipped. Drilled
out
the bolt holes for 8mm grade 8. Mast held, but now stripped the gears.
Replaced with an Orion. 6 3/8" bolts. Broke the weld of the drive shaft to
final
gear twice. The damn shaft eventually drilled thru the bottom casting before
I could fix it again...
Long hiatus... Moved to FL (and now dont get out as well)... Original TX2
is back up... Could not find the stock u-bolts. Improvised by drilling out the
holes and now have 4 5/16" grade 8 bolts. So far, everything is happy...
Ask me again after a hurricane... (I still think those hilltop ENY winds were
worse, since they broke anything I ever put up)
73 de Bill
K2EK
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