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Of course, all guy wires are galvanized.  Still, like galvanized  
towers, they need additional protection in order to extend their lives.

When installing a new tower, one of the best things you can do is  
paint it.  Not just the parts scratched by erecting it, but the entire  
thing.

The next thing you should do is grease the guy wires.  The grease will  
keep the zinc from being eroded, at least for a while.  The best way  
is to do it as the wire comes off the spool.  On larger towers, you  
can do it after the tower is up, but that is more expensive, and more  
dangerous.

On small towers, with small guy wires, it is far too dangerous to  
grease the guys later in life, so once they start to pit, they have to  
be replaced.  However, on larger towers, the guys can be greased over  
and over.  This can greatly increase the life of the guys.  Having  
written this, I am wondering if it is still legal to go down the guy.

--chip

On Oct 28, 2009, at 7:37 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 3
> From: Mark Humphrey <mark3xy at gmail.com>
>
> We had the towers inspected a couple of years ago and were basically
> told the same thing -- we are OK for now but need to consider changing
> out the guys within a few years.
>
> These are relatively short towers (the tallest is only 73 degrees) so
> I would really like to replace them with something taller and heavier
> to gain efficiency and potential rental income.
>
> Mark