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Re: [TowerTalk] HDX 555 Motor Drive BEaring

To: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>, towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] HDX 555 Motor Drive BEaring
From: Kent Olsen <kilo6dko@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 20:05:35 -0700
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Rick

What leads you to believe that he was using a remote to crank the tower up
and down?

73
Kent
N6WT


On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 3:07 PM Richard (Rick) Karlquist <
richard@karlquist.com> wrote:

> Yet another example of why you should never use
> the remote control box to control these units
> from a distance.
>
> Rick N6RK
>
>
> On 7/4/2019 2:08 PM, Phil Snyder wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > Went out this morning to crank up the tower to see if I could hear any
> > of the EU on 6 meters. as soon as it started up I heard a couple
> > cracking noises. I stopped and tweaked it up and down a little and
> > discovered that the flange bearing on the back side of the multi wrap
> > sheave failed.
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