[TowerTalk] insulators

[Roger K8RI on Tower]

> Hey, those insulators are COOL.  I am not sure what for,
> but I think they would bring out the crazy artist in me.
>
> Of course the kind of art I like are things like the
> long line of half-buried Cadillacs here in Texas.  Or

I think thos insulators are a lot older than you half burried Cadillac<:-))
Green glass insulators? Those hummers are *old*.  I haven't seen green glass 
insulators since I worked on an "open wire" telephone line back in the early 
50s and they were just litlle ones. (relatively speaking).

Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com

> the scrap metal dinosaurs.  Just seems like you
> could do some nice yard art with them!    ;-)
>
> http://www.texastwisted.com/attr/cadillacranch/
>
> http://www.libertysoftware.be/cml/cadillacranch/ranch/crabtr.htm
>
> http://geology.about.com/library/bl/images/blirondino.htm
>
> http://www.midnightsociety.com/web/Finds/Dinosaur/dinosaur.html
>
> --John
>
>
>
> At 04:31 PM 5/27/2005, you wrote:
>>Where I am working (at least for the next week) they are cleaning house 
>>and
>>are about to trash tons of big insulators.  I grabbed a couple interesting
>>ones to see if I could find a use for them.  Anyone know if collectors 
>>like
>>these or have any suggestions for uses besides lamp shades or bird baths?
>>http://www.k1ttt.net/images/insulator1.jpg
>>http://www.k1ttt.net/images/insulator2.jpg
>>There are also some smaller bright blue porcelain ones and of course tons 
>>of
>>brown porcelain.
>>
>>David Robbins K1TTT
>>e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
>>web: http://www.k1ttt.net
>>AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
>>
>
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