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sloan
Wood Telephone Poles
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May 28, 2008, 08:16:36 PM »
Need supplier of Real Wood HO Telephone poles (cheap if thats possible ) Sloan
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Paul M.
T&P Railway in the 1950s
Re: Wood Telephone Poles
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May 29, 2008, 05:06:33 PM »
I don't think anyone sells real wooden telephone poles.
Plastic wooden-styled telephone poles are sold by Walthers, Bachmann, and Lifelike, among others.
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sloan
Re: Wood Telephone Poles
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May 29, 2008, 10:40:31 PM »
I got lots of plastic ones ,but their reall not stiff enough to run (real powered wires on em ) unless I haven't figured it out yet
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Yampa Bob
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Re: Wood Telephone Poles
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May 30, 2008, 12:05:20 AM »
What are you using to simulate the wires? To be scale, the "wires" would only be .002" to .004", about like fine thread.
An 8" pole would equal 3/32 styrene rod, very stiff. Also check out small wood dowels, or bamboo skewers from the grocery store.
Real poles are tapered, about 10" at the bottom to about 8" at the top. Make your own cross arms, or just add a couple of small "insulators" on the side.
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WoundedBear
A Derailed Drag Racer
Re: Wood Telephone Poles
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May 30, 2008, 12:30:30 AM »
These are my poles of choice....cheap and fast....and reusable.
http://www.rapidotrains.com/telepoles.html
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jK-jP-JIhM4
Sid
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r.cprmier
Re: Wood Telephone Poles
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May 30, 2008, 09:34:32 PM »
1; use plastic poles; they will be more realistic.
2; use Berkshire Junction Lycra thread
3; Do your wiring under the layout. You will incur grief untold and they will cart you off, muttering to yourself, to your friendly neighborhood laughing academy.
Incidentally, Rix has about the best looking poles around-yes, they are plastic.
The Old Rreprobate
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Rich
NEW YORK NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD RR. CO.
-GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN!
grumpy
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May 31, 2008, 12:04:07 AM »
If you are going to install wires use fishing line . It is easy to install and you can pull it fairly tight without it breaking.
Don
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Guilford Guy
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Quote from: grumpy on May 31, 2008, 12:04:07 AM
If you are going to install wires use fishing line . It is easy to install and you can pull it fairly tight without it breaking.
Don
I don't like the color... Berkshire Junction EZ-Line works fine...
http://www.berkshirejunction.com/scenery.htm
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