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Yay! It's 6ft! My new 1-1/4" Upsweep Mounting Arm I was thinking it was 4ft from the seller's pic but turns out it actually is 6ft! I was hoping it was 6ft since Narragansett Electric used very similar arms (though the ones NECo used weren't as straight at the end; the curve pretty much ran all the way to the end of the arm). The drop lens 1992 M-250R2 was installed on the end of this arm when I got it. The arm was wired with UF cable. The exposed leads at the end of the UF cable were very brittle and when I flexed them the insulation came right off. When I pulled the UF cable out, a bunch of spiderwebs and a couple of wasp nests came out with it. Nothing living fortunately lol. Once spring comes I will need to clean this arm and the 1992 M-250R2 since they're both filthy. I also got a nice galvanized steel mounting arm for the powerflood. It's VERY heavy. Thick steel and way overbuilt. Designed to hold 1000W MV flood lights probably. This aluminum upsweep arm has two marks from screws (one on top, one on bottom) so the original light was likely some sort of NEMA head or an older fixture like an OV-10 or something. Keywords: American_Streetlights

Yay! It's 6ft! My new 1-1/4" Upsweep Mounting Arm

I was thinking it was 4ft from the seller's pic but turns out it actually is 6ft! I was hoping it was 6ft since Narragansett Electric used very similar arms (though the ones NECo used weren't as straight at the end; the curve pretty much ran all the way to the end of the arm). The drop lens 1992 M-250R2 was installed on the end of this arm when I got it. The arm was wired with UF cable. The exposed leads at the end of the UF cable were very brittle and when I flexed them the insulation came right off. When I pulled the UF cable out, a bunch of spiderwebs and a couple of wasp nests came out with it. Nothing living fortunately lol.

Once spring comes I will need to clean this arm and the 1992 M-250R2 since they're both filthy. I also got a nice galvanized steel mounting arm for the powerflood. It's VERY heavy. Thick steel and way overbuilt. Designed to hold 1000W MV flood lights probably.

This aluminum upsweep arm has two marks from screws (one on top, one on bottom) so the original light was likely some sort of NEMA head or an older fixture like an OV-10 or something.

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joe_347V   [Feb 06, 2017 at 07:32 AM]
Nice, this would look good over your driveway when you get your own place.
streetlight98   [Feb 06, 2017 at 12:24 PM]
Yeah I'll definitely be installing this someplace though not sure what light to use just yet. It would either be a M-250R2, M-250R1, or a radial wave/crescent moon since that's what would have originally been on this arm had it been used in NEES territory. Who knows what it originally had in Connecticut Light & Power.

What's interesting is that Connecticut Light & Power is now part of Eversource, which is the company Tony (Antstar85) works for.
Antstar85   [Feb 06, 2017 at 10:09 PM]
Very common arm used in our territory back in the day. We use Maclean brackets now.
streetlight98   [Feb 07, 2017 at 01:43 AM]
There's no brand on this one, just "PAT PENDING" engraved on one side of the lag bolt flange. I think NEES had used HAPCO stuff and NGrid does currently use HAPCO. This might be HAPCO too.

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