[tccrockets] Re: Good idea wanted

  • From: Jimmy Franco <Aldocyber3@xxxxxxx>
  • To: tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:19:10 -0700

Correct, no pole pounding required as long as we have the spikes

Jimmy F.
TRA 12524

gary-walker@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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>The poles are meant to slide over the pointy steel rods, that are meant to be 
>driven into the ground, protected from flaring by the sledge hammers   by 
>using the big steel sleeves (the ones with the big nuts welded onto them) .  
>No pounding of the speakers poles should be necessary.  At least that was how 
>it used to be done. 
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>GW 
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>From: chvy91bowtie@xxxxxxx 
>To: tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 4:30:58 PM 
>Subject: [tccrockets] Re: Good idea wanted 
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>We can weld a steel ring around the pole a few inches down and then make a 
>tool that will go over the pole down to the ring and allow you to hammer 
>(piece of steel pipe with a plate welded on the end) .  
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>-----Original Message----- 
>From: AiRobert <airobert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>To: tccrockets <tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>Sent: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 4:14 pm 
>Subject: [tccrockets] Good idea wanted 
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>We rebuilt the PA speakers at spring cleaning and now have a slight problem 
>with them. When we pound the speaker poles into the ground it mushrooms the 
>end a bit and then the speaker mount doesn’t slide onto the pole. 
>Anybody got a good idea on how to best solve this? 
>The pole is standard ¾ inch metal conduit and the mount is a standard threaded 
>conduit end. 
>My best idea so far is to mount a 6 inch long ½ inch diameter rod on the 
>speaker that will slide INTO the pole. 
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>RZ 
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>-----Original Message----- 
>From: AiRobert <airobert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>To: tccrockets <tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>Sent: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 4:14 pm 
>Subject: [tccrockets] Good idea wanted 
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>We rebuilt the PA speakers at spring cleaning and now have a slight problem 
>with them. When we pound the speaker poles into the ground it mushrooms the 
>end a bit and then the speaker mount doesn’t slide onto the pole. 
>Anybody got a good idea on how to best solve this? 
>The pole is standard ¾ inch metal conduit and the mount is a standard threaded 
>conduit end. 
>My best idea so far is to mount a 6 inch long ½ inch diameter rod on the 
>speaker that will slide INTO the pole. 
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>RZ 
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