| | First Threadless Hunt
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| | by Dan Kelly
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The end of the work week was greatly anticipated. Planned was what turned out
to the BEST vacation of my life. The plan was for me to meet Rob Lloyd and Tim
Gash in Columbia City for the insulator show May 15-16. We would "do the
show", then go to Canada on Sunday for a week of "CD 143 picking"
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| | A "Current" Use For Old Insulators
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| | by Mike Bowen
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The following is an article I wrote for the "Tesla Coil Builders
Association" newsletter that publishes unique information on Nikola Tesla
and his discoveries, high frequency-high voltage experimentation, and other
related topics.
VACUUM TUBE TESLA COIL
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| | Advertising Through the Ages
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| | by Robert Stahr
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Several issues of 1884 Electrical Review yielded some interesting
advertisements for the American Insulator Company.
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Elton Gish
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In the August 1989 issue of CJ, we discussed the unusual fog-type M-3900. A
picture of a line was shown that had many of these still in service in Illinois.
I have had a report that the line has been dismantled, which may explain why a
number of these "tick" insulators were being traded earlier this year.
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| | Bea Lines
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| | by H.G. "Bea" Hyve
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THE HISTORY OF "BEA LINES"
"Bea Lines" comes of age with my next collector interview (it will
be the 21st), so I though I'd write an article about the history of the column
and also give a few statistics. Crown Jewels of the Wire is one of the very few
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| | GroundTrac To the Rescue
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| | by Dwayne Anthony
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As a valuable service to your readers, I'd like to relay a recent trade
transaction that thoroughly rattled the nerves of two collectors. This is a true
story. Only the names have been changed to protect the insane... oh, I
mean the innocent. My purpose for sharing this agonizing incident with your
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| | Ask Woody
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| | by N. R. Woodward
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N. R. "Woody" Woodward is the author of THE GLASS INSULATOR IN
AMERICA, 1988 Report and developed
the Consolidated Design Numbers identification system for glass insulators.
The following question comes from Peter Hoffman, Mesa, Arizona
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| | The Canadian Pacific Thin-Pin
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| | by Mark Lauckner
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As you can see from the photo below, there are two Canadian CD 143's with the
raised band or "slug" plate, embossed CANADIAN PACIFIC RY. Upon closer
examination one can see the insulator on the left has a smaller pinhole. The
actual pin this insulator was on is pictured on the following page beside a
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