If it were me I'd toss that section and just get a new one.
Something's clearly not right and there's no need to risk a climber's life
over one tower section. What are they now, a couple of hundred bucks brand
new?
Do it right, safety first!
marlon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Machesney" <nekvtster@gmail.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 1:59 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] "Stubborn" tower section
>I purchased eight sections of used Rohn 25G last summer and it's finally
> going up. While test fitting the sections, I find that I have one
> "stubborn"
> section - it will not go onto nor will it accept any of the other sections
> without the application of considerable force. (This seems like a strange
> combination; one would think that if the "female" leg bottoms were
> smallish
> vis a vis accepting "male" leg tops, then it's own leg tops would be
> smallish, too, and easily accepted by the "other" sections.)
>
> Since it's not a perfect world, there must be some customary means of
> dealing with an errant section like this. Does one use clamps or a jack
> and
> pulleys to exert the needed force?
>
> 73 -- Brian -- K1LI
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