The EHS looked better than the grips. The Phillystran held up fine,
except it also had grips with corrosion.
John KK9A
On 2016-01-08 11:17, Kevin Kidd wrote:
> John,
>
> How did the grip corrosion compare to the guy cable itself?
>
> My tower guy ran into a situation where he was installing a 180ft tower kit
> for a client and found some of the grips were already showing signs of
> corrosion out of the barrel... He learned that the tower builder had
> substituted off shore built wraps for their normal stock and the
> galvanization was dramatically inferior to their normal stock.
>
> He also noted that the inferior grips were noticeably stiffer than whatever
> he normally used. I don't know if that would be good or bad...
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:26 AM, john@kk9a.com <john@kk9a.com> wrote:
>
>> he only Big Grips that I have seen close to failure were installed on my
>> tower in Aruba. After four years they were badly corroded and I could
>> break the strands with my fingers.
>
> Kevin C. Kidd, CSRE/AMD
> AM Ground Systems Company - WD4RAT
> kkidd@kkbc.com -- 866-22-RADIO -- 866-227-2346
> www.amgroundsystems.com [1]
Links:
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