Ok I snagged this out of a stocked dirt pile that my village dumped. I am insure where they got the piles. I think It may be an eletrical insulator bracket that goes on the poles but not sure.....any takers?
Usually, precise size-measurement is crucially needed for coming up with the correct ID of an object in a photo. (For example, a photo does not reveal whether a ball is marble-sized, baseball-sized, or basketball-sized.)
But in this case, your fingers being in the photo helps me estimate that the object is indeed a metal mount for a telephone/telegraph/electrical wire insulator (which is usually made of glass or ceramic material).
The coarse (large-gauge) threading is typical for that kind of insulator-mount. The deep slot going down through the threaded mounting-rod's center allows it to "flex" so it won't cause the glass or ceramic insulator to crack -- and it keeps the insulator tightly screwed on.
As worldtalker indicated, many telegraph-pole insulator mounting-rods were made of wood. However, some were definitely made of metal. Here's a photo showing one type of metal mounting-rods. its shape causes it be be nicknamed a "rams-horn" mount.
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Originally Posted by TheCannonballGuy
Usually, precise size-measurement is crucially needed for coming up with the correct ID of an object in a photo. (For example, a photo does not reveal whether a ball is marble-sized, baseball-sized, or basketball-sized.)
But in this case, your fingers being in the photo helps me estimate that the object is indeed a metal mount for a telephone/telegraph/electrical wire insulator (which is usually made of glass or ceramic material).
The coarse (large-gauge) threading is typical for that kind of insulator-mount. The deep slot going down through the threaded mounting-rod's center allows it to "flex" so it won't cause the glass or ceramic insulator to crack -- and it keeps the insulator tightly screwed on.
As worldtalker indicated, many telegraph-pole insulator mounting-rods were made of wood. However, some were definitely made of metal. Here's a photo showing one type of metal mounting-rods. its shape causes it be be nicknamed a "rams-horn" mount.
CBG, I recall as a kid in Florida seeing those old poles,always was drawn to the color of them insulators.
I, too, think it is an insulator bracket, but probably not from a pole. I looks more like a wall mount bracket, such as one might see used on a drop loop going to the side of a barn or out building.
Creskol is right, the form of the one Nirros (the Original Poster of this discussion) found is for mounting to a flat surface, such as a wall, rather than a pole, which is round-bodied.
Nirros' specimen is missing one of its three corners, each of which had a hole for a screw or nail. The broken-off corner is almost certainly why it was thrown away.
definately solved....i am going to cook this thing and see if there is a name under the rust. I will have to goo back to those piles and check them out again and maybe ask where the piles were from. from what I did read some of these were made in the late 1800's into the 1960's. I would love to find a few of the rare colored insulators that go on it.
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Originally Posted by TheCannonballGuy
