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The Leaning Sign of Pavey

 

 



 

 

                                                                              Italy has it's Leaning Tower of Pisa



NSW has it's own leaning icons  on lamposts in Hi-Vis yellow in many suburbs on roads from St. Ives in the North, to Kirrawee in the South.

 


 
 
 
On RMS controlled main roads there are an  increasing number of new clearway signs on the lean, in Gymea, Blakehurst, Roselands, Hurstville, Gordon, and Ryde( to name a few)

The photos below are  just some of those, in  pages of the last three years of this website. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 I took the photo of the two above, less than three weeks after they were installed 
 
 
 
 

 
 The problem is that the bracket  cannot  keep the   567 gram  ( slightly more  than half a kilo)  clearway sign  up in a horisontal position.
 
The bracket used by the RMS has one fixing point and that 567 gram weight is just too much or it to bear.

What would happen if you drill an extra hole in the RMS bracket and use two coach bolts to attach it back on the pole

I did and hung  12,240. grams  (27 lb) of weights off the bracket when I finished.



 One fixing bolt holding up the 567 gram (just over half kilogram) piece of hi-Vis aluminium

 

 Volunteer worker re-attaching modified RMS bracket and sign with an second coach bolt

 

 

 

 So the bracket with two coach

bolts  can easily hold up

12,240  grams. (over 12 kilos)

But the one coach bolt way of

installation

("to Australian Standards")

prefered by the RMS, can't

handle 567 grams


 

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