Questions for owners of Lionel scale telephone poles

Buehler?  Buehler?

Anybody?

I do not have these but per the Lionel web site, the lighted poles have a hole for the wire so I would assume they are one piece, hollow and use a 22 gauge wire. Just my guesstimate.

I am still trying to get the poles off of thier bases!

I believe they are plastic

the pole is one piece, then the base than the separate add on details

not sure about the cross arms, I will look tonight

and never did use the screw in base that the phone pole snaps over...

anyone know how to take the bases off?

I appreciate the info.  Please advise me of your progress.  I am designing a lighted arm for a telephone pole and trying to determine if the Lionel pole will work.

George

I have a few questions for those of you that own Lionel scale telephone poles, that would be 6-37939 (assorted), 6-37995 (lighted) and 6-37851 (standard)

          Yes, they are made of a very hard plastic a bit less flexible than most.

• Are they hollow?

         I don't think so - I haven'tcut one in half but I drilled into the bottom 1/2 inch and they seem solid throughout.

• Are they one piece or built in sections?  Do they come apart?

      Mine came assembled, in that respect they are one piece.  They have been assembled.  Some of them have thin metal brases and such.  Crossarms, transformers and such have been add.  The pole itself is one piece I think.

• If they are hollow, do the wires go through the hollow center?
• Any idea what gauge the wires are?

      As small as the smallest real insulated electrical wire I have seen but larger than scale.  They don't look that bad, but I removed the wires and re-wired them with thin fishing line.

Many thanks,

George

I looked at them again last night and attempted to remove the base. no go...

I think to plant them in the scenery I will have to cut them off their base with a rail saw, yes they are solid hard plastic.

Cut them off at the base. Drill a thin hold up into their base with a drill and insert a 1" long metal wire or thin nail about 1/2 inch up into the base so half of it projects down, and then drill a hole where you want it and stick that in to the benchwork to hold the pole in place.  Worked for me.

Lee,

For the lighted ones (6-37995), do the wires (that you connect to the power source) come out of the bottom?  

What gauge do you estimate these wires are?

Thanks,

George

I actually don't recall, I have my lighted ones modified and glued against the side of buildings for clearance reasons and I ran the wires into the buildings and used their feed wires for power.  sorry - it's been a while.

I have lots of the Lionel poles and I think they are great. Very well detailed. Just cut off the base.