[BC] Tower guy wire coating

[Blake Bowers]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Earle" <mearle at mearle.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Tower guy wire coating


> Urban, Brian L wrote:
>> They used to grease guy wires on tall towers years ago.  AFIK, this is no 
>> longer standard practice.  I can think of several reasons not to apply 
>> coatings-it traps moisture in the interior of the wire, and makes it 
>> difficult to see surface corrosion are two big ones.  If the wires were 
>> properly galvanized at the time of manufacture, I'd think coatings would 
>> be unnecessary.  My $0.02.
>>
> In '06, drove out to a site to do routine maintenance.. found a guy on the 
> ground. It was the 900' guy on a 980' tower. That led to quite a worrisome 
> two weeks, to get the needed materials and someone to install. There had 
> been a "bulge" about 50' out from the tower. Seems moisture caused 
> corrosion in the core of the cable. Despite my warnings, it was ignored 
> until it failed. Luckily, it all worked out, no one was injured or hurt, 
> the tower stayed up.
>
> But, I'm no longer involed with that station group.
>
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