Author Topic: 1930's Porcelain Suspension Street Light with Radial Wave  (Read 1928 times)
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1930's Porcelain Suspension Street Light with Radial Wave « on: February 16, 2019, 09:27:42 PM » Author: GE101R
Got the porcelain series head with a very rusty radial and replaced radial shade with the one that is pictured. Got the spool suspension bracket from Joe Maurath in Massachusetts and he was kind enough to send it to me. Came together well for under 200.00
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Re: 1930's Porcelain Suspension Street Light with Radial Wave « Reply #1 on: February 17, 2019, 02:44:28 PM » Author: GE101R
Got about 90 1950's/60's different street lights in my collection. Decided to stop collecting and sold off quite a few but then I had second thoughts and I have started collecting again. My dad started my interest back in the early sixties as he worked for the electric co-op and started bringing me old radials and LM Spherolites the co-op had taken down and replaced with mercury.
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Re: 1930's Porcelain Suspension Street Light with Radial Wave « Reply #2 on: February 17, 2019, 03:57:02 PM » Author: GE101R
Corporate attorneys have stopped most of it because of liability.
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Re: 1930's Porcelain Suspension Street Light with Radial Wave « Reply #3 on: February 19, 2019, 05:36:12 AM » Author: GE101R
You were lucky. Right time and right place.
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Re: 1930's Porcelain Suspension Street Light with Radial Wave « Reply #4 on: February 20, 2019, 06:01:02 PM » Author: GE101R
Why are comments disabled on your other two forum posts?


Also liability sounds like an excuse to avoid the troubles of helping someone get rare parts and lights.... They seem to think we're too incompetent to have a light? Hah.

A previous member by the name of Lodge said this to us once, if you find a light fixture you like or if you want to get your hands on them contact your city officials if the power company says no.... After all you're the tax payer... You should have some sort of rights where those fixtures are running off too.


Nope, that too. Biggest problem sue happy people who want things for free and then sue when they hurt themselves. Best example was when a man bought a 10 KVA 7200 120/240 pole transformer and was using it as a Tesla experiment. Apparently he got distracted and used his 600 volt "wiggy" to check the voltage. Only problem he used it on the 7200 volt primary bushing and not the side 120V and he got zapped and I mean zapped with 7200V. He lived and sued the power company that sold him the transformer because his shyster attorney said the power company should not have sold him the transformer before checking if he was "qualified". A snow job by the lawyer and his client.
THAT is the biggest problem besides as you stated, they don't want to spend the time.
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Re: 1930's Porcelain Suspension Street Light with Radial Wave « Reply #5 on: February 21, 2019, 01:38:39 AM » Author: GE101R
I have never heard that transformer story before, where did you find it? It frustrates me that sue-happy idiots like that have to ruin it for everyone.

It was in Texas, back in the 1990's. 
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