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T and K brackets-which at the top?
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<blockquote data-quote="hexah" data-source="post: 841567" data-attributes="member: 333852"><p>Have you (or anyone else) tried the Blake chimney strap system? I thought of using it when the rusty old wire failed in heavy wind bringing down the old aerial rig.</p><p></p><p>Blake are good quality. I have one of their x beams they are like the old jaybeams in x style. I generally use Antiference though. I have decades old TC10 and TC18 that still are like new.</p><p></p><p>I ended up using some old T and K brackets on the wall for the TC18 instead of a chimney lashing as I used to put up Band I antenna etc over 'summer' but there was no way I would leave my pride and joy up over winter!</p><p></p><p>Dodgy chimney installs worry me more than T and K installs. Some of the satellite chimney installs I have seen have been frightening. They are much more likely to come down in a storm onto your car or break your tiles.</p><p></p><p>There are a number of grid aerials installed round here for their beamwidth due to trees being in the way of the transmitter. One was installed over the summer on a 20 foot pole and a single mitre bracket and a few months later into autumn looked like the tower of pizza. Predictably the pole acted as a big lever. Two brackets and re-tighening the J bolts after a few weeks may have avoided that. But the really amusing thing is that if it was mounted a few feet above ground level at the end of the garden it would see under most of the trees, enough to get a decent signal and because the grid is so thin it would not really be visible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hexah, post: 841567, member: 333852"] Have you (or anyone else) tried the Blake chimney strap system? I thought of using it when the rusty old wire failed in heavy wind bringing down the old aerial rig. Blake are good quality. I have one of their x beams they are like the old jaybeams in x style. I generally use Antiference though. I have decades old TC10 and TC18 that still are like new. I ended up using some old T and K brackets on the wall for the TC18 instead of a chimney lashing as I used to put up Band I antenna etc over 'summer' but there was no way I would leave my pride and joy up over winter! Dodgy chimney installs worry me more than T and K installs. Some of the satellite chimney installs I have seen have been frightening. They are much more likely to come down in a storm onto your car or break your tiles. There are a number of grid aerials installed round here for their beamwidth due to trees being in the way of the transmitter. One was installed over the summer on a 20 foot pole and a single mitre bracket and a few months later into autumn looked like the tower of pizza. Predictably the pole acted as a big lever. Two brackets and re-tighening the J bolts after a few weeks may have avoided that. But the really amusing thing is that if it was mounted a few feet above ground level at the end of the garden it would see under most of the trees, enough to get a decent signal and because the grid is so thin it would not really be visible. [/QUOTE]
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