[Antennas] unusual question but....

[bill]

Chicagoan, I live a few miles from Ohare Field.
We have had one of the worst winters in a long time.
While this is a recently 'checked out & serviced' rotor, it's really 
having a tough time turning my old Wilson Crank up tower.
Slow and sometimes a tad slow to start turning. Once it's gets going and 
turning it's better, just those first attempts in the morning.
It is a new cap in the control box. I always keep a spare.

Has anyone come up with a good way to keep them warm?
As you know, the rotor is at the base of the tower and turns the whole 
tubular tower. Sort there is some bit of resistant torgue at the start.
I bought one of those small plastic storage bins, carefully cut it so 
that it fit around the rotor portion and the bearings.
Just to keep the frozen snow off of the rotor. (I do mean frozen as we 
then had a day of freezing rain that put a crust of HARD snow over 
everything.

We are back down to near zero again and expecting more.
Too late for this winter but has anyone ever come up with some sort of 
way to keep a rotor warm. Those electric water pipe thawing gizmos seem 
dangerous.
Anybody???

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Aren't the 'good things that come to those who wait' just the leftovers from the people that got there first?
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W9OL-Bill H. in Chicagoland