I was hoping someone would know where I can purchase the insulated washers that go on the screws of lamposts.I have a few #58 streetlights that the insulated bushing is broken causing the power wire to ground out.I can't seem to locate a part number.Thanks in advance.
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I have had good luck at ACE hardware they have a good selection of all kind of hardware , washers metal or insulated etc and all different sizes of metric and sae screws n nuts that work well on engine train repairs. do you have a ace hardware store near you!
https://www.acehardware.com/departments/hardware
Alan
I second ACE. I am lucky to have a great ACE by me.
The fiber washer with a shoulder is probably 118L-11. The flat fiber washer is probably a 61-13. Both used by Lionel for many years. Both should be available from usual sources like Jeff Kane, the Train Tender. These washers were used with the #4 screw.
Try Fry's or what even replaced radio shack in your area.
Full service and fully stocked hardware stores are closing up due to Home Depot and the like.
You could cut your own washers from hard plastic retail packaging.
I would use plastic pie trays for black and fast food boxes for clear or white washers.
Old school fans would use "fish paper" cardboard for insulation.
Black or color plastic tape would also work.
Lowe's has specialty items in drawers in the hardware section. I have bought insulated washers there.
Proper Lionel part is 61-13 and available from the usual suspects. Part number 153-4 for the posts and 59-12 for the nut.
thanks to all
I save my old credit cards as well as cards which come in the mail such as the plastic cards that Spectrum Cable occasionally puts in their correspondence. Some of these cards are solid plastic some are a stiff plastic coated card stock. I tape them down to a piece of plywood or particle board and use an adjustable hole saw in a drill press. When they need to be small I use brass tubing with the edge sharpened. Once the material is taped to a board then clamped in the drill press I will bore the small hole first then change the tube out and bore the outer diameter. Plastic will usually fuse together but you can seperate them with a fingernail or an xacto knife. The thick white washer standing on it's edge is about 6 layers thick. j
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