Likely you actually broke the tab long, long ago. It was only hanging by a
thread, and that gave the separated parts time to rust. This recent lowering
was what finally did it in. Definitely call UST tomorrow and see what you can
do; Any company worth their salt should stand behind that since it is clearly
poor welding.
Chris
KF7p
On Aug 9, 2015, at 16:41 , Roger (K8RI) on TT wrote:
A good welder should be able to fix that. The bent pieces are a straight metal
tab welded to a box (square tube) member. I think they/it could be cut off, a
new bracket made, and welded in place. The one might just need straightening.
You could probably have a welder look at it and give a price quote. They can
come out to the site, or if you can take the pieces in, it would be
considerably cheaper.
73 es Good luck,
Roger (K8RI)
On 8/9/2015 3:19 PM, Rich Hallman - N7TR wrote:
> This morning I was lowering my HDX572 and as it was almost down one of the
> base ears that the raising fixture leg mounts to failed. Fortunately it was
> a slow drop and the tower is still ok. If it failed while it was higher this
> could have been a different story.
>
> I will need a new raising fixture and a new HDX572 base. I have a like new
> spare TRX-80HD raising fixture for my HDX589 so I should be ok there.
>
> I posted some pics and will add more later today. From the looks of the
> break, I am seeing rust (Not clean metal) where the welds were. Also I'm not
> sure if the ear on the one leg that mounts to the raising fixture began to
> bend first or not. But it is bent a hard 90 degrees now as you can see.
>
> Anyone else see something like this in the past? This is an older US Tower
> so I'm not sure if the bases are built better now or not for the mounting ear.
>
> Go to my QRZ Page http://www.qrz.com/db/N7TR And look for the link called
> HDX572 Raising Fixture Failure.
>
> Rich N7TR
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