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Westinghouse OV-15
Here's a pic showing the ballast, terminal block and slipfitter bolts inside my OV-15 :-)
Keywords: American_Streetlights

Westinghouse OV-15

Here's a pic showing the ballast, terminal block and slipfitter bolts inside my OV-15 :-)

OV-15_Pics_001.JPG OV-15_Pics_002.JPG OV-15_Pics_003.JPG streetlight_pics_008.JPG streetlight_display_001.JPG
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Filename:OV-15_Pics_003.JPG
Album name:HPSM250R2 / My Streetlights
Keywords:American_Streetlights
Company and Date Manufactured:Westinghouse, 1968?
Model Number:OV-15
Wattage:175
Lamp Type:Mercury Vapor
Filesize:330 KiB
Date added:Mar 23, 2014
Dimensions:1600 x 1200 pixels
Displayed:105 times
Color Space:sRGB
DateTime Original:2014:03:23 14:52:09
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Exposure Time:1/20 sec
FNumber:f/2.8
Flash:No Flash
Focal length:5 mm
ISO:1000
Make:Canon
Max Aperture:f/2.8
Model:Canon PowerShot ELPH 100 HS
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streetlight98   [Mar 23, 2014 at 11:04 PM]
nice new shiney bolts. Very Happy
HPSM250R2   [Mar 23, 2014 at 11:09 PM]
Thanks. I had already cut 4 bolts a few days ago, but I cut both ends so that there wouldn't be any of that blue paint on them. But when I cut them with a hacksaw, it left sharp burrs on the metal. So I bought two more threaded rods and cut the ends off both last night. And threaded the cut ends into the fixture. I don't mind the blue paint on them that much.
streetlight98   [Mar 23, 2014 at 11:10 PM]
if you get a steel wool pad, you can likely scrub the paint off them if you wanted.
HPSM250R2   [Mar 24, 2014 at 12:50 AM]
I'll probably just leave the paint on them. I don't want to damage the threads anymore.
streetlight98   [Mar 24, 2014 at 01:32 AM]
ahh yeah good call. I guess the blue is well-fitting since this is a MV light. Laughing
HPSM250R2   [Mar 24, 2014 at 01:35 AM]
Yeah your right Very Happy Plus, it doesn't look bad either. I didn't think shiny new bolts would look good in an old fixture where everything else is rusted inside, especially with the blue paint. But it looks fine.
streetlight98   [Mar 24, 2014 at 02:21 AM]
yeah looks great! if you wanted to, you could rub some graphite powder on the bolts and that would make them less shiney but i think it looks good how it is.
HPSM250R2   [Mar 24, 2014 at 02:40 AM]
Yeah I still would prefer to still have the original bolts. But too late now. I'm happy with how they turned out though.
Antstar85   [Mar 24, 2014 at 10:35 AM]
I have had a few occasions where I could not free the slipfitter bolts changing out an OV-15 so I ended up having to take the entire bracket off the pole and install a whole new one with the new fixture. We have impact guns we use too and that couldn't even free it.
streetlight98   [Mar 24, 2014 at 02:40 PM]
Yeah I've heard of the bolts being seized so badly the threaded rods sheared off right at the nut when attepted to be loosened. Shocked those L-150s and L-250s must be nightmares since they use the same bolts at the other westies but they're flat-out exposed to the rain and everything so they must REALLY get stuck!

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