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I had a bit of luck today, a local property developer that we often get offcuts of firewood from (saves him hiring a skip/dumpster) phoned us and asked if we could clear a load of wood and stuff from a garage at a property he'd just bought. Anyway, to cut a long story short, when we arrived it turned out that the previous owner was a retired electrician, and the garage was half full of wood and half full of old electrical stuff.
About a hundred high voltage insulators, half a dozen motors of various sizes, loads of light fittings, etc. including some huge lightbulbs, old switchgear, meters, and I've hardly begun uncovering stuff.
I'll be making some of this stuff available to other 4HV'ers as and when I get it home (going back tomorrow for another load), and I'll post some photo's of the more interesting stuff. There's also loads of bits of pipe suitable for TC secondaries, up to ~5", and big cabinets that I've yet to uncover properly.
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Ok, here's some photo's of the first batch of insulators I've started to clean up. Still got another big box full to go.
Some are bakelite, some presumably some kind of porcelain and some are a sort of brown earthenware.
Some have GPO or LEA GPO markings. I'm assuming these are the ones used by distribution companies to carry 10kV or so to pole pigs, etc. If anyone has any more info I'd be grateful.
I'll post details of the other 'goodies' as and when I sort them/clean them up
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Steve Conner wrote ...
I'm pretty sure those are old-fashioned telephone wire insulators, hence the GPO marking. Power line ones are a good deal bigger.
Ok, thanks Steve. I can see the ones in the field opposite my window which go to the pole pig, and they look similar, but it is difficult to judge the size.
They should still be good for a fair few thousand volts though, if clean and in (reasonably) ideal conditions. I imagine they are vastly over-rated in the field, due to their getting covered in pidgeon poop, etc.
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Yep, they should handle a few kV easily enough in indoor conditions.
I suppose some of them might be for the 240V or 415V overhead wires you sometimes see on farms and in small villages, where they use one large pig to feed a half dozen houses.
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