On Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 6:43:16 PM UTC-4, dpb wrote:
On 8/8/2020 2:46 PM, Tekkie� wrote:

On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 13:53:59 -0700 (PDT), posted for all of
us to digest...


I was able to get some more pics of the tower where it enters the concrete base:
https://ibb.co/k8Mxx5p
https://ibb.co/c6bw9ZK
https://ibb.co/zJ8drfd

Opinions ?

It needs maintenance, now. Like Bob F said remove the dirt to the concrete,
check for perforations and cold galvanize.

Which will still leave the condition below the surface of the concrete
unknown...although one can probably tell a little bit about how much
corrosion has occurred at the interface...

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Get rid of the dirt. That's a danger spot. The electronegativity of steel in concrete is different from steel in dirt. That causes current to flow and corrosion to occur. That's why the clothes poles we all used to have always break at the interface.

The condition inside the concrete is probably much better than at that interface.