Today I spent most of the day getting hardware done for the military tower. I need this parts to finish up the bottom bearing so I can have it installed when the foundation is done. I used the lathe to remove some steel from the axle so its in three steps, 30mm, 28mm and 20mm. I think the pictures explain how I’ve thought out to do it. After it was all welded up it seem to be fairly straight when testing it in the lathe.
To be continued…
This weekend I spent a few days down at the station as my vacation begun. Me and SM2XJP went on Friday down to SM2UVU and picked up the plate that he got cut for us with the laser at his friends work. Its a 10mm thick plate with a total of 39 holes cut out with perfect precision. We also got some coffee and talked a lot about his project of putting up a 48m tower he built himself which is rotatable and will be filled with Optibeam antennas.
Later on Saturday my girlfriend came down and went into town and bought a door for the house. She also cut the lawn and I removed the roof that was above the stairs and cut away the rails so that I can finish up that side of the extra insulation of the house.
I did some work with the chainsaw as well and installed the metal oxide protection for the rotor cables down in the basement.
Sorry, been lazy with updates that last week. Been so busy at work so I have not been able to do much else except some small stuff.
I drilled new holes in the guy wire ring we got from SM2DMU, now it fits the military tower.
SM2NOG and I went up to SM2OAN to help him put up 36m of OH8QD tower and antennas this weekend at his island QTH. It’s a beautiful place and we enjoyed the food, company and also the work very much. The weather was pretty much perfect, even though I got showered by rain while being in the tower on Sunday. SM2NOG did the climbing on Saturday putting up the first four antennas and I did most of the climbing on Sunday putting up the lower four antennas. SM2OAN himself put up the 12m yagi at around 10m height.
I managed to take some pictures of the work.
