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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I moved to a new locale last summer. Being handicapped means I get things done more slowly when it comes to things like unpacking. I still have a long ways to go...wishing I was not always so "but I'll need this someday" oriented. The I went and did something crazy. I have always wanted a metal lathe. So I (more or less - 4 persons involved) traded one of my more rare glass insulators for an Atlas Metal Lathe and tools. So while coins are never on the back burner totally, the forum and time on the internet are. Where I used to live the weather did not agree with me. At my new home I feel a lot better than I used to. I have resolved, now that I can, to get up and out of my chair a lot more and not spend so much time online. This is why I am not anywhere near as active on the forum. While I miss being here, it sure feels good to be able to get other things done I have wanted to for so long. I still cannot do an awful lot at one time, but its great to be able to be up and around again!     I plan on restoring the lathe to original condition...just for the FUN of it. Yeah...it will take awhile. Restoring tools has become a new hobby as well. |
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Moderator
 United States
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Good to hear from you.  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Glad your up and around , good for you !  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
9150 Posts |
Glad you checked in to let us know whats going on, wish you well.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4085 Posts |
Glad to hear you are enjoying new pursuits! Now just don't spend too much time lathe-ing around. Get it? Lathe-ing around? Come on, it's funny! Well I thought so...  |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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 You Did get me! Thanks all - I always know I have the CCF family to fall back on. I am not quitting by any means. But rather than checking a couple times of day for new posts it may be a few days between checking. After 12 years of being in the same chair and on the internet most of the day I am enjoying this new bit of freedom.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Great hobby!
Picture of the Atlas please!!?!!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10029 Posts |
Atlas QC54 10" with 30" bed. Old but everything is in great shape mechanically. Gears not worn, ways in great shape, included the steady rest, 3 and 4 jaw chucks, a large box of tooling, chuck, and some things I do not know what they are yet! Been a woodworker al of my life and now branching into metal work.   The quick change alone on it sells for 2/3 what I got the entire lathe for. It was a fellow insulator collector/good friends whose father wanted to get rid of it b/c he has not used it in a long time. What insulator could be worth that much? Third one from the left. None of the ones in the pic are my actual pieces. This insulator profile/size is designated as a CD143.  I put a lineup here so people could see that the extreme left is the typical aqua people can find these in for ~10.00. The Montreal blue is about a $40.00 piece and in hand sort of resembles Windex for color. I do still own one of each of these. The Sky blue goes for around 800.00-900.00. The dark sapphire blue, of which I have never owned one, would likely fetch $2,500.00-3,000.00. The picture does it no justice. In the past I was an insulator dealer. Profits from buying/selling meant that in the long run I paid nothing for this Sky Blue! So my lathe was free . Besides, these Montreal CD146s were made in Canada, and a close friend of mine from Toronto was drooling over this Sky Blue CD143 when he found I had one. Very few CD143s are known in this color such that most Canadian collectors have never even seen one. So this piece has been repatriated now and I will get to make metal chips after a fun restoration (and a lot of study). |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Great to hear from you. Enjoy your new toy!
Member ANA and EAC "You got to lose to know how to win". Dream On by Aerosmith |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3402 Posts |
Use the lathe to make some Magician coins.
KK
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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@ Earle42:- I suspect that the CCF seems a bit more like 'family' to you, than the wider internet. That seems to happen often, where members of a forum are sharing life long interests. Same with me. I have been collecting coins on a reasonably serious basis since the mid 1960's. Good to hear form you again.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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Earle42 - all the best and enjoy life!
When at Victoria Falls train station in Zimbabwe in December, I spotted a felled telegraph pole! I couldn't resist removing a couple of insulators from it and bringing them home. They're just white ceramic ones though...
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02/02/2020 09:11 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10029 Posts |
@KopperKen Quote:
Use the lathe to make some Magician coins. - my thoughts exactly, but I know I need to become a lot more educated and skilled to do so. Maybe some magician Ikes! But that will be a long way off I fear. @sel Quote:
I suspect that the CCF seems a bit more like 'family' to you, than the wider internet.
That seems to happen often, where members of a forum are sharing life long interests.
Same with me. I have been collecting coins on a reasonably serious basis since the mid 1960's.
Good to hear form you again. Thanks Sel. Yes this is a family to me. The insulator hobby is another family of mine, and until this forum I had not found another hobby where the people were as nice to each other in sharing and educating each other. The family atmosphere is why I enjoy this forum. Sometimes I have bad health weeks - like this last week - which keep me in my chair and therefore on the computer, but those weeks have been fewer thankfully now that I am in this new locale and climate of western OH. Quote:
When at Victoria Falls train station in Zimbabwe in December, I spotted a felled telegraph pole! I couldn't resist removing a couple of insulators from it and bringing them home. They're just white ceramic ones though... Very cool! So they just unscrewed? A lot of foreign porcelain is actually glued onto an iron pin and people over there remove them with hacksaws, then soak the pin out using HCL to eat away at the cement! Most foreign countries used mainly porcelain. It used to be much more labor intensive, but less expensive to make. Porcelain also handles higher voltages. So most foreign insulators are white or brown porcelain. A lot of the world collects by by different shapes and markings/company names (if present) because of the lack of different colors. Although hobby references highlight the exceptions. I have never pulled a piece in the wild from anyplace but the US and Canada. Want to ID yours? http://nia.org/general/gallery.htmClick the foreign porcelain link and you will see pics of what is known so far. Yes, the page shows color - but this is b/c the page also likes to display better colors. be sure to click the unknown link. Who knows, maybe you found a new type? Foreign porcelain insulators have only really started to be classified within the last 10-20 years or so. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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Thanks for the link Earle42 - they look identical to the British U-1549. Perhaps they are local copies of a Bullers one - I can't see any markings on them. I've also found my Cuban insulator on the site (U1184-A). I retrieved that from the Hershey Electric Railway 10 years ago!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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it could be yours was a UK piece that was used in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe was a part of the British empire and, although I am by no means a porcelain expert, I your piece may be time period when the Brits were in control and therefore developing/exporting there.
As to the Cuban one found in Hershey - that is really weird! Some foreign glass and porcelain has been found in service in the US before, but not that much and certainly not in large quantities.
How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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