Showing posts with label broadcast tower painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label broadcast tower painting. Show all posts

Saturday, January 6, 2018

You won’t fly into the radio towers we paint!!






Painting self-support towers is one of our specialties.  With this tower, we teamed up with Anchor Paint to use their proprietary Flexi-Coat Aviation Coating Series to paint the orange and white bands to FAA color and gloss standards. 

Hundreds of Turkey Vultures and Black Vultures regularly roost on this tower so prep work was of the utmost importance to establish a good foundation before the application of the coating.  Prep work consisted of pressure washing, hand and power tool cleaning to remove built-up dirt and rust (SSPC 1, 2, 3).   

Tower banding was first introduced to towers back in the 1930s to provide a contrasting background from the tower and sky so aviators could easily see them and gauge how tall they might be.  Towers are divided into bands depending on their height, for example, a tower less than 700' will have 7 bands, and towers up to 900' will have 9 bands and so forth.  

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Monday, September 18, 2017

Certified FAA/FCC compliant tower painting




Check out a few before and after shots of a tower we painted with aviation orange and white in California.  Sitting atop an Art Deco building on Nob Hill in San Francisco, designed by architect Albert Larsen this tower was one of the first in the area.  This structure was originally an RCA broadcast radio tower built around the 1930's to deliver clear reception to the city.   We used PPG's PSX One on this tower with excellent results to preserve the old strap steel.  Turning a dilapidated tower into a beacon that shines for miles and lights up the San Francisco skyline is truly rewarding.


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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Radio and Cell Tower Painting








The BASE Group Tower painting in Western Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming summer 2011.
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Tower Painting

















The Base Group performing tower maintenance painting in Colorado. This tower had to blend in with the current landscape. Red & white candy stripe to Sudan Brown.

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