Thanks. One of my distributors is asking that I go from 4.5” to 5” pipe ability on all my stuff. That is a pretty minor change and I will probably do that.
From: George Skorup Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 6:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Pipe mounts That was me. The angle-iron leg deal I was talking about, I don't actually need anything specifically designed for angle-iron, we simply turn the back clamp inwards. Works perfectly fine. However, like I said, the back side of the angle is about 5-3/4" if I remember. That's the tower where we order clamp halves that are 7" hole to hole center. A couple other examples that I can give... Angle iron leg, 6-3/4", sloped. Round leg, 8-1/4", sloped. Angle leg, 12-3/4", sloped. (old AT&T Long-Lines sites, big mothertruckers from ground to 125 feet) We're on so much different shit, we pretty much have to order what we need for the particular site we'll be working at. And most of the time on free-standers, the legs get smaller as you go up. So we might need to put dishes at 100-140 feet and sectors at 240-260, which means two completely different sets of mounts for one site. I would say a model that can accommodate up to 4.5" OD and another for 4.5 to 9" OD, sloped or not. For your 1-to-2 pipe arrangement, most towers will fall in one of those two. For the big leg sites, I'm not as worried since, as I mentioned, that's mostly for mounting dishes lower. We ordered I don't even know how many of these kits last year. 3' HP dishes on 4.5" pipes adapted to 6" to 8" legs. Some angle, some round. Some sloped, some not. http://www.ciwireless.com/product/welded-pipe-to-pipe-adaptor-set-for-tapered-round-members-2-38-in-5-in-od-pipe-to-4-in-9-in-od-pipe/ On 1/16/2017 2:38 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: I have been asked to spin versions of my tower mounts that work on angle iron legs. OK, done. Will be released soon for general availability. Now I am getting request for larger units that will fit a 5” pipe. We currently will fit a 4.5” pipe. If I spin a larger version, shall I go 6” or??? Someone recently suggested 7” center to center on the bolts which would fit over a 6.5” pipe. Are there some standard tower leg and mounting pipe increments I need to look at?
