I have a W-51 for sale on my web site if anyones interested.
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> On Jun 10, 2017, at 6:23 AM, Clay Autery <cautery@montac.com> wrote:
>
> Sir, as respectfully as I can....
>
> IF you are going to ignore our repeated and unanimous? recommendations,
> then please do us the courtesy of NOT lecturing us about it.
>
> Or at least write the lecture better and in a format we can slog through
> in order to spot your glaring engineering/fab procedure mistakes (if
> any... there always are, even with professional engineers).
>
> Sincerely,
>
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> Clay Autery, KY5G
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>> On 6/10/2017 5:57 AM, southbound suarez wrote:
>> Yes, I have studied the Tashjian website and have even spoke with a
>> representative on the phone.
>> Unfortinately their online and openly published documentation in my opinion
>> quite vaugue and incomplete with respect to designing and fabricating your
>> own base. I would make a guess that a decent amount of marketabilty for
>> them comes from design services. They will sell a service and paper packaged
>> presentation with engineering wet stamp of your older second hand tower
>> revised with reccomendations and recaculated to new standards. They also
>> have a more basic set of generic instructions that they will ship with new
>> base purchase.
>> The base with suggested installation instructions with example for areas
>> with adobe type soil conditions are similiar is included for $395 plus $200
>> shipping.
>> This might be very necessary if you require inspection. I am headed right
>> near there this weekend and considered just paying the $400 and picking it
>> up in person. However,, they dont carry these pieces in stock and there is
>> a whole proccess of placing the order and the sales staff places the build
>> ticket with the production dept. and a notice to notify the proper design
>> staff who orders the material and sends it to fab who builds it in the order
>> recieved. After its finished it has to be sent off for galvinizing. In other
>> words it wont be ready ...... ready for several weeks up to couple months
>> and certainly not this same weekend I am traveling thru there. So now we are
>> looking at $600 to have it shipped! I am so impatient i would have been
>> compulsed to pay $400 with the mindset that I am getting some limited
>> factory support for a twenty something old tower. (the fact that they
>> support old tower that predates their interest in the TriEx company is
>> really worth a premium) A
s
> I
>> mentioned before I am impatient and I also draw the line at $600 to have to
>> wait up to ? Months?
>> Their written review service without any design considerations of your old
>> tower cost $200
>> If I was for sure going to be inspected I would buy that....
>> As far as detailed erection instructions it appears they are going to need
>> to be reimbursed.
>> Man! Go look at all the design details and information that US TOWERS makes
>> avail on their site..... So much for proprietary information. I am acquiring
>> my rebar and doing concrete work as per US Tower info.... still no
>> fabrication of actual base stubs. I did acquire 3/8 steel plate tho......
>> that appears to match that of the tower legs.
>> Should I be bumping that up to.1/2 instead?
>> I agree that 3/4" holes perfectly lined up in 1/2" steal isnt something
>> that you are going to do with a step bit and a cordless dewalt.
>> It is my similar thought that these holes would likely be a job for
>> Bridgeport or similiar milling machine.
>> As for the steel alloy? Anyone offer up a clue? Also need the size and type
>> of rebar that is used to weld onto the tabs?
>> That no weld method sounds like kinda iffy with using angle? I Do notice
>> that US Tower does similiar with anchor bolts. I just rather see more metal
>> from the legs going into the concrete below than welded to a top plate. I
>> saw one where the guy welded gussets . That seemed a bit better. US Tower
>> definately does alot of rebar work to keep those anchor bolts from pulling
>> out. I Am building my cage similiar with 2#6 per corner and the 20 #3 ties
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