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People all too often grossly underestimate the force of the wind as well as running water. I cannot count the number of times I just cringed when asked, "Is this OK to use to mount my antenna?"
I usually scrap the factory mounting plate and make my own. If it came with 1/4 inch hardware, I switch to 5/16. If it uses 5/16 hardware, I switch to 3/8 as well as make the mounting plate thicker. I have used 1/2 inch aluminum plate just to mount a three element tribander because I knew what kind of beating it was going to take. The antenna eventually was beaten to death in a wind and ice storm, actually breaking the fibreglass insulator in the driven element centre. The sorry mess however stayed on the tower due to the heavy mounting plate.

<blockquote data-quote="Captain Kilowatt" data-source="post: 851954" data-attributes="member: 39">People all too often grossly underestimate the force of the wind as well as running water. I cannot count the number of times I just cringed when asked, &quot;Is this OK to use to mount my antenna?&quot;<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :eek:"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f648.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":X3:" title="X3&nbsp; &nbsp; :X3:"&nbsp; data-smilie="30"data-shortname=":X3:" /> I usually scrap the factory mounting plate and make my own. If it came with 1/4 inch hardware, I switch to 5/16. If it uses 5/16 hardware, I switch to 3/8 as well as make the mounting plate thicker. I have used 1/2 inch aluminum plate just to mount a three element tribander because I knew what kind of beating it was going to take. The antenna eventually was beaten to death in a wind and ice storm, actually breaking the fibreglass insulator in the driven element centre. The sorry mess however stayed on the tower due to the heavy mounting plate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Captain Kilowatt, post: 851954, member: 39"] People all too often grossly underestimate the force of the wind as well as running water. I cannot count the number of times I just cringed when asked, "Is this OK to use to mount my antenna?" :eek::X3: I usually scrap the factory mounting plate and make my own. If it came with 1/4 inch hardware, I switch to 5/16. If it uses 5/16 hardware, I switch to 3/8 as well as make the mounting plate thicker. I have used 1/2 inch aluminum plate just to mount a three element tribander because I knew what kind of beating it was going to take. The antenna eventually was beaten to death in a wind and ice storm, actually breaking the fibreglass insulator in the driven element centre. The sorry mess however stayed on the tower due to the heavy mounting plate. [/QUOTE]

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