Okay this was a redesigned hidge to fix a problem with the older hidge design...i guess that new design wasn't much of a help!

That interesting, But my local utility seems quite wastful, I mean this was 3 years old and the door still stays on and closes so why really replace it But I got it so it was good

The old design was worse....if it broke, it wouldn't stay on...so this is better anyway.....

Well my OVZ has the old design and its broken, but it managed to stay up for years!

How does the Hinge Break Anyway?

If you put to much stress on it when opening it, I have almost broken the hinge on my OV-15 and 125 since both have problems opening some times, it should make more sense when you get your own cobra head

Do you mean the newer OV-15? Because my OV-15 I have from 1968 has an AWESOME hinge, and the same time it is stylish too!

Its a Crouse-Hinds from the late 80s, but my Westinghouse OV-25 from 83s does have a great hinge!

As long as one hinge is still good and the latch is engaged, the door will hold. I like the good ol' days when the doors had mechanisms so they wouldn't fall off by accient. AEL has a "hinge keeper", but i have no idea what that is.

This actually has a screw that will keep the door from falling off it it ends up being opened, the door can't fall off on these or any of the new Coopers to my knowledge. The AEL hinge keeper are two screws that go through the end of the hinges and prevent the door from falling off, two of my AELs have them - see here and open the picture up into the large mode.

So you have to remove the screws to remove the door? Or do you just loosen them? They obvoiusly don't use hinge keepers on the GEs or Coopers here because the doors blow away like leaves on trees.

The B2255 also has screws on the rear door and the B2227 and R47 had a clip near the hinge that does the same thing too.

You have to unscrew at least one of the screws to remove the rear door on my B2255.

I'm pretty sure the hinge keepers are now standard on Coopers, but it wasn't with the old hinge design. Yep all of the Powerlites came with hinge keeps too, so did older AEs.

The old GE's did too. The 60's M-400 and M-250R did. So did the M-1000.

Anyone know if the B2213/15/17 had hinge keepers?

Yep they do.

My OVZ doesn't have hinge keepers and it has the new hinge design. I don't think all of them had hinge keepers. Does Alex's OVX have hinge keepers?

I'm not sure if the ones here do either since when a door opens here it usually falls right off. Though I've only seen a door on the ground once before and have seen lots of lights (M-250R2 in particular) without doors. Of all the AE 113 here, I've only seen one without a door, but it was because it appeared the door was damaged during a pole renewal and they taped a M-250R2 door on it. It was removed a little while after that with no replacement.