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Title: Broadcast Tower Base, Ummm... Questionable? Post by: WBear2GCR on March 30, 2017, 10:28:20 PM This from a FB group of BC techs/engineers... ...this tower was apparently "over guyed" (tensioned too much), and is still standing. HA! Title: Re: Broadcast Tower Base, Ummm... Questionable? Post by: W7TFO on March 30, 2017, 10:45:07 PM This happens in cold WX when tensioned by monkeys with tools.... :P
73DG Title: Re: Broadcast Tower Base, Ummm... Questionable? Post by: KC4VWU on March 31, 2017, 01:06:33 AM Makes me feel uneasy just looking at it. Can't really see, but the welds don't look to be compromised. To me, that base plate really looks undersized although I may have the wrong perspective.
Phil Title: Re: Broadcast Tower Base, Ummm... Questionable? Post by: W3RSW on March 31, 2017, 07:50:34 AM It was rewelded, possibly a couple of times and painted over after the initial partial collapse..
Look at the weld bead overlaying off-square alignment. Has probably stood this way for many years and 'lovingly, kept painted. ;D Title: Re: Broadcast Tower Base, Ummm... Questionable? Post by: WBear2GCR on March 31, 2017, 08:35:36 AM Howdya like those fine business bolts holding the "straps"? Title: Re: Broadcast Tower Base, Ummm... Questionable? Post by: W3RSW on March 31, 2017, 11:14:09 AM Both straps clearly put on to keep away further leg bulging outwards. Nuts don't seem to be threaded on all the way. Hopefully those are hardened bolts, not your mild steel, corner hardware store gems.
Regardless, the fixes seem to have worked for a Long time. Title: Re: Broadcast Tower Base, Ummm... Questionable? Post by: WA1QHQ on March 31, 2017, 12:36:17 PM Make me wonder how many towers there are out there sitting on cracked base insulators.
Title: Re: Broadcast Tower Base, Ummm... Questionable? Post by: W6TOM on March 31, 2017, 03:18:36 PM I think of a fellow coworker who was in the broadcast industry and the stories he would tell of their unbelievable cheapness, then there were a few presentations I've been to given by the California Historical Radio Society by a few retired guys from the broadcast industry telling stories in the same vein.
Title: Re: Broadcast Tower Base, Ummm... Questionable? Post by: flintstone mop on March 31, 2017, 07:05:52 PM It was rewelded, possibly a couple of times and painted over after the initial partial collapse.. Look at the weld bead overlaying off-square alignment. Has probably stood this way for many years and 'lovingly, kept painted. ;D Good eye there. Yup looks like it's been "corrected" a couple times. Gonna cost a lot of money to fix that |