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Ready to shine.
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This is one of several lights I'm sending to get powder coated. I don't do a bad job but it just isn't as good as a professional job . I never can get the exact factory color either,This way it will look good and be the right color and last a long time. Unfortunately they'r going to have to blast away a good amount of pain't . The mans price chart said $65 for a motorcycle gas tank which I figure is about the same when all is said and done. Although it may be more after he removes the paint thats on it...Lol.
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here's 8ft tapered elliptical.
10ft truss.
and 6ft tapered elliptical (my personal favorite) All are 25ft aluminum hapcos.
you might be right about the height on those though. Those are from the 70s so they could be 30ft poles. These older poles are from the 60s and they're shorter than the ones I linked before. So these are probably 25ft.
These are about 35ft all. This is what RIDOT uses for new freeway lights. The ones I linked here are from the mid-to-late 80s.
The tapered eliptical and truss poles are actually owned by the electric company. The RIDOT poles are all davits (except for very few instances where they own some truss poles but they're very different looking). Ah so the pole itself isn't actually 25, 30, 35, etc feet tall, it's the mounting height? That's odd, since the rise of their arms are all different, so the actual pole height between a tapered elliptical and truss pole would be different.
I was told the poles were HAPCO but perhaps they're actually from a different manufacturer? Do they look like any other manufacturer that you know? I'm totally confused now...
Ah you're getting direct bury? Aluminum? Hmm you're torn between 4ft tapered and 8ft truss. What about 6ft tapered (or 6ft truss if they make it)? You coule get davit too if you wanted. Davit poles are kinda boring though. I like these older davits with the gentle curve. I don't like the ones with a sharp bend like this one.
There's two poles here with 250W HPS M-250R2s on 6ft tapered elliptical poles, one missing the glass that have been sitting there untouched for probably a decade. They both have brown photocells, the one with no glass looks like a DTL PC and the one with the glass looks like a Sun-Tech PC. The DTL PC is from 1996-2000 and the Sun-Tech is from around 2000-mid-to-late 2000s (but really from early 2000s since the lights have been sitting there a decade). The place is a paving company. They must have removed them from somewhere and just kept them lol. I believe they're metal poles, which would have been from the electric company. It would be really cool to be able to score both poles with lights or even just the lights themselves. All I would have to do is grab a ladder, some wire snips, and a 9/16" socket wrench and they'd be mine lol. Of course I'd try to get them the proper way though. They'd probably make me buy an entire pole and make be buy both though knowing most construction companies.
Yeah I don't know the brand either, but whatever it is, the designs are essentially the same, since NGrid sill installs nearly identical replacements, which are shiney and brand new.