Nice! Going to get a nice new paint job eh? BTW, you can remove the galvanized steel power door bridge with a pair of pliers (just bend the two tabs away from the hinges of the refractor door and it should come off).

I know but I'm afraid of damaging something or tearing the steel by bending it too much.

I bent the tabs on my two M-400A2s and the refractor door hinges came right out and nothing happened. Just use and adjustable wrench, close it onto the metal, and pull it out of the way.

I may do that, I'v done it in the past. I do need to put some cold galvanizing spray compound on it. I wish I could find a place to do hot dip. This bad boy is going to look great on the new 25 foot HAPCO pole I want. . I want a shorter aluminum pole because I think a 30-35 foot aluminum pole will be a little overwhelming in my neighborhood. Plus it would be neat to look at.

Aw sweet! What's the arm going to be? Here, NECo used 6ft tapered aluminum and 10ft truss on 25ft HCPCO aluminum poles.

I want a 8 foot truss but i'm not to sure. It may be overkill in the neighborhood. I do like the four foot tapered arm. OK I took the bridge assembly off the M-400A ready for powder coating I'll take it there during lunch break Friday and see what they want for it. I can't find anyone in the area that does hot dip galvanizing for the bridge assembly so i'll probably just get some cold galvanizing spray for it. I'll have to tape up the pliers when I put it back so i don't ruin the galvanizing though.

Here's a 25ft tall HAPCO with 8ft truss.

here's 8ft tapered elliptical.

10ft truss.

and 6ft tapered elliptical (my personal favorite) All are 25ft aluminum hapcos.

Well it's been dropped off at the powder coater , $100 not bad. I can't wait to get it. Are you sure those are Hapco poles they don't look anything like the ones in my catalog ? I know for sure they'r not 25 footers they look more like 35 foot mounting heights. Just sayin'.

No, these are definitely HAPCO poles. Is this the catalog you're looking in? The reason the poles don't look identical is because the poles I linked above are from the 1970s (maybe some newer ones for replacements) so HAPCO may have changed the designs ever-so-slightly. The utility here has exclusively used aluminum HAPCO poles since the 50s.

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.

Yes and the poles look completely different. Now they could have been DOT specific that hapco built just for RIDOT they do that I had called hapco about a pic of one of they'r poles and it was different than the standard pole and it was a DOT spec pole. None of those poles are 25 foot they are taller if you ever do see a 25 foot pole they'r obviously short. actually a hapco pole is shorter than 25 foot and the mounting height is 25 foot so the pole would be about 22 foot with an arm rise of 3 foot.

Yeah sorry I was mistaken, the poles I had initially linked were 30ft, not 25ft. So is this one 25ft? I always thought it was 20ft since it's really short. The light doesn't work either. It's abandoned, since RIDOT repalced the NGrid owned lights on the freeway with RIDOT owned lights.

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...

Yes that's it and direct burial like the one I want. All the arms have a 3 foot rise its just the longer they are the more gradual they rise. So a 4 foot arm would rise more abruptly than a 6 foot arm.At least that's what the cat. At least that is what the catalog shows on the tapered arms.The truss arms are different. They don't look familiar could they be union metal ? not sure. They may be Hapco just older models.

It's actually an anchor base pole but the base isn't visible. It doesn't have one of those breakaway bases, so the actual base set in the ground. They only used anchor base aluminum poles. The only direct bury poles are from the late 80s used in upper-class neighborhoods like This one. The poles don't look aluminum. They look like concrete poles?

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.

No they only make the 8 foot truss as the shortest, But I think that might be a little overwhelming for the neighborhood I live in it would look way out of place. I think a 4 foot arm would be best because as far as the catalog shows it has a nice rise to it.