- Dig foundation hole as detailed in Groundsleeve Installation
Instructions.
- Remove flagpole shaft from
shipping tube, and place on sawhorses. Remove the setting
tube from the butt of shaft, and place tube into
foundation hole so that bottom is well-worked into the
sand, and the top is 1" to 2" above grade. Make
certain that the setting screw is at the top of the
setting tube, and is facing in the direction you vent the
cleat to face.
- Plumb the setting tube vertically, and brace so
that it cannot move during pour. Pour concrete, and
trowel to desired finish. Keep inside of tube dry and
free of concrete. Allow concrete to cure for at least 24
hours before installing flagpole shaft.
- Remove wrappings from top and bottom of shaft, and
from around cleat area. (Leaving remainder of wrappings
on shaft will help protect it from hand-prints.) Attach
cleat to shaft using predrilled holes and screws
provided. If an optional flash collar has been supplied,
slip collar on bottom of shaft, and temporarily tape to
wrappings below cleat.
- Screw ball-stem into top of truck, then use wrench
to tighten jam-nut against top of truck. Slip truck on
shaft, using an Allen wrench to tighten the set-screws
holding truck to shaft. Make certain that the truck
pulley is aligned over the cleat.
- Thread rope halyard through the truck pulley, and
tie rope-ends loosely together, in order to check for
proper length of halyard. Halyard should be long enough
to wrap three or four times around the cleat. If too
long, cut off excess length and fuse cut-end with a match
to prevent fraying.
- Slip nylon flagsnaps over end of outside leg of
halyard, run each snap to midpoint of rope, and tie
loosely using an overhand knot. (Loose knot can be worked
up or down later, to adjust for the size flag being
flown.) Re-tie free rope-ends together, using a tightly
pulled square-knot.
- Pick up shaft and place it into the setting tube,
rotating it to face the truck in the desired direction
and to line up the set-screw in the setting tube with the
drilled and tapped hole in the shaft. Tighten set-screw
to hold shaft in place. If optional flash collar is being
used, slip it down the shaft and caulk it into place on
concrete and around shaft.
- Remove remainder of wrappings from flagpole. Adjust
flag snap spacing on halyard to accommodate flag; attach
flag to snaps, run it to the peak, and tie off halyard on
cleat.
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