[Antennas] unusual question but....

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40w bulb under rotor.


Jay...NE2Q


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:22 PM, bill wrote:

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