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CD 252 Hemingray-62 glass insulators in service use

CD 252 Hemingray-62 glass insulators in service use
W Elm St. just west of S Marion St., Bluffton, Indiana

Shot of two CD 252 Hemingray-62 glass insulators with drip points on each end of the crossarm supposedly used for the street light circuits. Looks to be a double circuit line on the pole.

Within the last two years the old mercury vapor street light was changed out along with the isolation transformer taken down.

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 Power Lines
Power Lines
That's a cool old pole there! I love that old "6 on the arm" construction. And those glass insulators on the ends make it even better! "Hemingray icing on the cake" I'll call it. : )
10 years ago.
Matt Weldon has replied to Power Lines
Thanks Andrew, glad you like this shot a lot!
10 years ago.
 Tony Glen
Tony Glen
Nice! Lol for a second I thought "Where's the glass"? But I see it now.
10 years ago.
Matt Weldon has replied to Tony Glen
Thanks Tony? what happen to Anthony, LOL.
10 years ago.
Tony Glen has replied to Matt Weldon
lol. I go by both.
10 years ago.
 David Dahle
David Dahle
Now that's what I call a "brake stomper"! I like the variety of glazes on the mud too.
10 years ago.
Matt Weldon has replied to David Dahle
Thanks David glad you like this one a lot! Although the porcelains aren't that old they do look cool like you said with the different color of glazes. I wish I could of shot this pole earlier before they changed the light and took off the isolation transformer.
10 years ago.
 David Dahle
David Dahle
You can definitely tell that this streetlight has been converted from series to multiple. The loop has been permanently bypassed and the new streetlight has a photocell (ones still wired for series won't as they would be controlled back at the regulator pole).
10 years ago.

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