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Could the club get the tower in time for MHM?

We need to buy GLR’s. Thoughts on my suggestion re: the upper ring?Looking at the picture, the supports appear to be 1″ square steel tubes. If the base that they’re welded to is beefy enough, I bet a rocket would…   Read more»

I think we should look at it before we go making any suppositions about how rigid the uprights are. Rings are for towers that aren’t built well enough to maintain their spacing from bottom to top. The Bicycle towers definitely…   Read more»

That sucker was $1800 five years ago. I have a hard time taking them serious. There is a reason they don’t put a price on the website. I wonder if they have ever sold any of them? I’d bet if…   Read more»

Personally, if I were to drop my own money on a tower, I’d get that tower launcher you and I are always drooling over (www.towerlauncher.com) and call it good. Hell, with that it’d be a very unlikely thing for me…   Read more»

Looks great to me. My only question is what keeps the uprights so rigid? You’d think w/o a ring or similar brace up top it would “splay” outward? Guy lines or wires will only make that more of an issue.If…   Read more»

Tim, what would be the issue with the club buying it from GLR? By all means bring it out so we can check it out. If it fits our needs and everyone says great, we’d probably prefer the club own…   Read more»

Boy I have to agree thats a great tower. I think a very viable and affordable deal for the club to look at.

This looks like a great option to me, too. 7 feet, and it looks like it adjusts down to arbitrarily small diameters. Sweet.

That’s an awesome option. It’s far better than what we have now being 7′ long and able to handle 4″ birds and a far cheaper option than buying the $1800 tower that John and I keep drooling over (that’s 8’…   Read more»

8) If I may jump in, please go to the Giant Leap website. Under Launch Systems, Adjustable Launch Towers. I have the 7 ft. tower pictured there. It fits into any 1/2 in. Pad. It has 3 X 7-0 SS…   Read more»

If I remember correctly, the existing bicycle tower could probably be lengthened just by replacing the 6 pieces of conduit with longer ones. If we lengthened it to 5 or 6 feet could it still fit in the trailer? I’d…   Read more»

There is a commercial tower out there that runs $1800 (no, I’m not kidding). I think a tower like we are discussing would be a good addition to the club’s equipment collection.Some of these things probably don’t need to be…   Read more»

I agree on the 1010 rail as uprights John. I have a design I’ve been fiddling with using rail for the uprights and braces with a machined stainless blast plate and legs that stake down to the ground. You could…   Read more»

It needs to have a substantive base and blast deflector and should be usable without guy lines.WarrenActually, I feel very strongly about guy wires. I think they MUST be used. Imagine a beefy motor like a J570 or a big…   Read more»

It needs to have a substantive base and blast deflector and should be usable without guy lines.WarrenActually, I feel very strongly about guy wires. I think they MUST be used. Imagine a beefy motor like a J570 or a big…   Read more»

I have some suggestions if the club is to build new ones. They can be light weight strong and easy to work with. I don’t think making one tower to handle 38mm up to 6″ is what we want. We…   Read more»

Personally I’m a big fan of towers like John. Historically, I’ve built all my altitude birds and even a few non-altitude birds to fly out of towers because I just hate sticking a launch lug or rail buttons out there…   Read more»

Yes there was a discussion in the Annual Club meeting. In fact it was I that made the request for addition and re-vamping of the club towers to revive the older ones as well as build some newer ones that…   Read more»

Adrian, my hunch is that a tower that is capable of bigger rockets may not be well suited for smaller rockets. As you know, I am interested in both. The engineering likely means two separate towers.BTW, I also have a…   Read more»