> You don't mean just finger tight, do you? No wrench? Mine were put on
> pretty tightly. Surprisingly, very easy to take off.
Not finger-tight, but as tight as you can go with a nut driver. I wouldn't
use a ratchet.
> Having snagged it, then what? How did he get it close enough to repair?
He didn't have to. As I understand it, Doug assembled the cable end in the
normal way with thimble, cable clamps, etc. Then he attached a snap hook to
the thimble. He then attached the snap hook to a fishing pole or bamboo pole
and extended it from the tower to the eye bolt in the boom. He then snapped
the hook onto the eye bolt. I'm not sure how he attached the snap hook to
the pole. He must have had some way to disconnect the two after the hook
snapped on. Also, it must have been done so that the snap hook wouldn't flop
around and would be stiff enough to snap onto the eye bolt. Anyway, once the
boom end was in in place, all he had to do was tighten the turnbuckle at the
mast end.
73, Dick WC1M
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike [mailto:nf4l@nf4l.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 1:39 PM
> To: wc1m73@gmail.com
> Cc: 'Roger (K8RI)'; towertalk reflector
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Phillystran damaged?
>
> Dick Green WC1M wrote:
> > Generally good advice, and of course you don't want to damage the
> > Phillystran, but in the case of the 4-el SteppIR boom support, I would
> > advise cranking the nuts as tight as you can by hand.
> You don't mean just finger tight, do you? No wrench? Mine were put on
> pretty tightly. Surprisingly, very easy to take off.
>
> > I contacted K7IR at SteppIR about it, and he told me that the boom is
way
> > overdesigned and the truss is there mostly for cosmetic reasons.
> Good to know.
> > Later, I spoke with K1DG, who had exactly the same experience with the
boom
> > truss on one of his 4-el SteppIRs. He devised an ingenious repair method
> > whereby he used a snap hook attached to a fishing pole to snag the
eyelet
> on
> > the boom end of the truss. So, if it lets go you can repair it, but not
> > without some difficulty.
> >
> Having snagged it, then what? How did he get it close enough to repair?
> > Of course, if you're one of the many SteppIR owners with a tilt-over
> crankup
> > tower, my advice may not apply.
> >
> In my dreams ;-o>
>
> 73, Mike NF4L
>
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