martog
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Post by martog on Aug 29, 2014 22:08:14 GMT -8
Completley untrue, I've been sharing the love around on other forums and recently got into another love of mine a little more, collecting vintage High Voltage and Low Voltage Insulators. Strange addiction really but fun and heaps cheaper than watches.
When I get my man cave straightened out I am going to set the lighting inside the shed up as a couple of street poles and liven up the overhead conductors with 12VDC (Safe that way) and run the lights. Anybody coming into the shed should be taken aback. There is also 50 inch HDTV going in there, a grinding stereo unit, Fridge and super fast broadband. I'll post some pics of the Insulators later and catch up with you about where I am with my watches.
Cheers (Not Dead) Mark
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2014 22:33:42 GMT -8
Completley untrue, I've been sharing the love around on other forums and recently got into another love of mine a little more collecting vintage High Voltage and Low Voltage Insutaltors. Strange addiction really but fun and heaps cheaper than watches. When I get my man cave straightened out I am going to set the lighting inside the shed up as a couple of street poles and liven up the overhead conductors with 12VDC (Safe that way) and run the lights. Anybody coming into the shed should be taken aback. There is also 50 inch HDTV going in there a grinding stereo unit, Fridge and super fast broadband. I'll post some pics of the Insulators later and catch up with you about where I am with my watches. Cheers (Not Dead) Mark Hi Mark, Your 'insulator' collecting mus be fun. I've seen several different kinds. I think a lot of them may be ceramic or porcelain. I once worked with a guy whose brother was a BC Hydro tech and he collected the glass/crystal lenses from street lamps. The make awesome punch bowls. Anyway, I can appreciate your new passion. Collect on and please share some of your finds with us
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martog
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Post by martog on Aug 29, 2014 23:04:45 GMT -8
Completley untrue, I've been sharing the love around on other forums and recently got into another love of mine a little more collecting vintage High Voltage and Low Voltage Insutaltors. Strange addiction really but fun and heaps cheaper than watches. When I get my man cave straightened out I am going to set the lighting inside the shed up as a couple of street poles and liven up the overhead conductors with 12VDC (Safe that way) and run the lights. Anybody coming into the shed should be taken aback. There is also 50 inch HDTV going in there a grinding stereo unit, Fridge and super fast broadband. I'll post some pics of the Insulators later and catch up with you about where I am with my watches. Cheers (Not Dead) Mark Hi Mark, Your 'insulator' collecting mus be fun. I've seen several different kinds. I think a lot of them may be ceramic or porcelain. I once worked with a guy whose brother was a BC Hydro tech and he collected the glass/crystal lenses from street lamps. The make awesome punch bowls. Anyway, I can appreciate your new passion. Collect on and please share some of your finds with us The Clear glass insulators from the early 1930's are especially nice and the smoked glass insulators are very rare now I managed to get my my hands on some when my wife and I were on holidays in the south west of WA. I walked into an old second hand shop and asked the old lady if she had some old insulators she said to me I have some in the back of the store I was really surprised when she came out with this big box full of them and the 40 dollars I was stoked. Many people use them for different applications but I prefer to use them as they were intended. Cheers Mark
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Post by trandy on Aug 30, 2014 6:10:46 GMT -8
Good to see you Mark!
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Post by 69ChevelleSS on Aug 30, 2014 6:20:49 GMT -8
Hey Mark . . . glad to see you alive and well! Interesting new hobby and can't wait to see your digs! BTW . . . this strap look familiar? Put it on my 6309-7290 and I really like it!
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Post by Groundhog66 on Aug 30, 2014 6:39:53 GMT -8
Hi, Mark!
Looking forward, to learning a bit about your new hobby.
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martog
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Post by martog on Aug 30, 2014 6:50:14 GMT -8
Hey Mark . . . glad to see you alive and well! Interesting new hobby and can't wait to see your digs! BTW . . . this strap look familiar? Put it on my 6309-7290 and I really like it! Yes I remember looks cool on the 7002 wear in good health. Mark
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Post by 69ChevelleSS on Aug 30, 2014 14:45:52 GMT -8
Hey Mark . . . glad to see you alive and well! Interesting new hobby and can't wait to see your digs! BTW . . . this strap look familiar? Put it on my 6309-7290 and I really like it! Yes I remember looks cool on the 7002 wear in good health. Mark Thanks Mark . . . a really comfy strap!
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Post by sdoocms on Aug 30, 2014 17:37:00 GMT -8
Completley untrue, I've been sharing the love around on other forums and recently got into another love of mine a little more, collecting vintage High Voltage and Low Voltage Insulators. Strange addiction really but fun and heaps cheaper than watches. When I get my man cave straightened out I am going to set the lighting inside the shed up as a couple of street poles and liven up the overhead conductors with 12VDC (Safe that way) and run the lights. Anybody coming into the shed should be taken aback. There is also 50 inch HDTV going in there, a grinding stereo unit, Fridge and super fast broadband. I'll post some pics of the Insulators later and catch up with you about where I am with my watches. Cheers (Not Dead) Mark Good to hear from you Mark!
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Post by cd_god on Aug 30, 2014 17:45:21 GMT -8
Hi Mark, Your 'insulator' collecting mus be fun. I've seen several different kinds. I think a lot of them may be ceramic or porcelain. I once worked with a guy whose brother was a BC Hydro tech and he collected the glass/crystal lenses from street lamps. The make awesome punch bowls. Anyway, I can appreciate your new passion. Collect on and please share some of your finds with us The Clear glass insulators from the early 1930's are especially nice and the smoked glass insulators are very rare now I managed to get my my hands on some when my wife and I were on holidays in the south west of WA. I walked into an old second hand shop and asked the old lady if she had some old insulators she said to me I have some in the back of the store I was really surprised when she came out with this big box full of them and the 40 dollars I was stoked. Many people use them for different applications but I prefer to use them as they were intended. Cheers Mark This guy on the coin forum is into insulators. www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=141199You could shoot him a message. I am sure there are insulator forums out there as well.
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Post by longbike on Aug 30, 2014 23:18:49 GMT -8
Martog, I had a few a couple years back for here and they were nice too. A lot of my friend work for the Power Company and go all over and they get them for me from old houses , Poles, Buildings etc. I had a big bunch back on the other island and they are still at my Mom's house in a shed out back. People be surprised at what kind of older one a person can have. Some go back to the early, maybe 1920's 1930's or further back , don't know. Bu they sure look nice, so I cleaned them up and stored them away so maybe some day the can be of some value or some thing. Aloha .....
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martog
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Post by martog on Aug 31, 2014 5:07:30 GMT -8
The Clear glass insulators from the early 1930's are especially nice and the smoked glass insulators are very rare now I managed to get my my hands on some when my wife and I were on holidays in the south west of WA. I walked into an old second hand shop and asked the old lady if she had some old insulators she said to me I have some in the back of the store I was really surprised when she came out with this big box full of them and the 40 dollars I was stoked. Many people use them for different applications but I prefer to use them as they were intended. Cheers Mark This guy on the coin forum is into insulators. www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=141199You could shoot him a message. I am sure there are insulator forums out there as well. Thanks Mate I just joined the club and contacted a guy from the Northan Territory Aust who is an Insulator collector as well thanks for the link. Mark
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Post by timewatcher on Aug 31, 2014 8:42:25 GMT -8
I collected telephone pole insulators for years and have probably over 100 at current time. I have Purple, Root Beer, Green, Clear, Blue, Mickey Mouse style and even a VERY rare HTF RED one! When I was a kid growing up in Wa. State we used to shoot them off the poles with our .22 rifles. www.insulators.info/clubs/
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Post by SpinDoctor on Aug 31, 2014 15:53:32 GMT -8
It's amazing that there's actually clubs for collecting insulators and the watch enthusiasts can't even keep a forum together for more than a decade.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 16:38:43 GMT -8
It's amazing that there's actually clubs for collecting insulators and the watch enthusiasts can't even keep a forum together for more than a decade. There are forums for shaving razor collectors; forums for navel lint collectors and there are forums for all sorts of collectors. So why not watch collectors who get bored and move on to lint or glass or pottery?
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Post by SpinDoctor on Aug 31, 2014 18:19:21 GMT -8
It's amazing that there's actually clubs for collecting insulators and the watch enthusiasts can't even keep a forum together for more than a decade. There are forums for shaving razor collectors; forums for navel lint collectors and there are forums for all sorts of collectors. So why not watch collectors who get bored and move on to lint or glass or pottery? No what I meant was looking at those clubs, there's organization, dues collection, publications, meetings and even annual exhibitions. Very impressive from a hobby I never heard of before this thread. By the shear numbers of watch enthusiasts out there you'd think there's be something even stronger in this hobby, but instead we get some asshat moderators.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 18:25:48 GMT -8
There are forums for shaving razor collectors; forums for navel lint collectors and there are forums for all sorts of collectors. So why not watch collectors who get bored and move on to lint or glass or pottery? No what I meant was looking at those clubs, there's organization, dues collection, publications, meetings and even annual exhibitions. Very impressive from a hobby I never heard of before this thread. By the shear numbers of watch enthusiasts out there you'd think there's be something even stronger in this hobby, but instead we get some asshat moderators. Sad but true...at least on other forums
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Post by cd_god on Aug 31, 2014 20:05:02 GMT -8
Our local coin club has been around since 1934 (aka the Great Depression where every penny counted) It is $10 per year to join. We meet up once a month with free door prizes and refreshments ($50 budget per month) are served and 1 hour is parliamentary procedure followed by free food and drink and then show and tell and brag what you got and then an informational speech. If you volunteer 3 hours at the annual coin show you get a free 4 course $50 steak dinner at the banquet with more free door prizes. Each month the treasurers report is says we lose $200 per month but thanks to smart investing since the early days we are still way ahead of the curve even with the .01% interest rates paid for the last 5 years. And rumor has it the club has purchased and I guess from willed collection donations a million dollar collection some of which is on display at eh Milwaukee Public Museum. As mentioned above I don't know why there aren't any local watch clubs anywhere. We had 2 WI watch meetups back in the day but I guess the Swiss vs Japanese vs. Russian vs Rich amns watch vs poor mans watch forums there is just too much divide in the community.
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Post by SpinDoctor on Sept 1, 2014 7:08:59 GMT -8
Our local coin club has been around since 1934 (aka the Great Depression where every penny counted) It is $10 per year to join. We meet up once a month with free door prizes and refreshments ($50 budget per month) are served and 1 hour is parliamentary procedure followed by free food and drink and then show and tell and brag what you got and then an informational speech. If you volunteer 3 hours at the annual coin show you get a free 4 course $50 steak dinner at the banquet with more free door prizes. Each month the treasurers report is says we lose $200 per month but thanks to smart investing since the early days we are still way ahead of the curve even with the .01% interest rates paid for the last 5 years. And rumor has it the club has purchased and I guess from willed collection donations a million dollar collection some of which is on display at eh Milwaukee Public Museum. As mentioned above I don't know why there aren't any local watch clubs anywhere. We had 2 WI watch meetups back in the day but I guess the Swiss vs Japanese vs. Russian vs Rich amns watch vs poor mans watch forums there is just too much divide in the community. Good stuff although I'm imagining a bunch of pirates sitting through an hour of parliamentary stuff. A generation ago, social clubs were huge. Even workers in large businesses had social clubs organized by trade and/or interest. I suppose before our home entertainment, that's what people did. Anyway, sorry to derail this thread. I look forward to learning more about these insulators. Looks like industrial art to me. Very interesting.
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Post by Groundhog66 on Sept 1, 2014 10:20:07 GMT -8
There are forums for shaving razor collectors; forums for navel lint collectors and there are forums for all sorts of collectors. So why not watch collectors who get bored and move on to lint or glass or pottery? No what I meant was looking at those clubs, there's organization, dues collection, publications, meetings and even annual exhibitions. Very impressive from a hobby I never heard of before this thread. By the shear numbers of watch enthusiasts out there you'd think there's be something even stronger in this hobby, but instead we get some asshat moderators.
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