Telephone Pole Construction Question

Gene,

     Are you making telegraph poles or utility poles?  I remember Dave's product very well, unfortunately i do not have any, what great product he had!   Maybe he will return.  As of the notching i have not seen that on utility poles.  There is great post on poles in this forum section by Dave Minarik.  I am using keil line, which is a scale kit.  I do not notch my pole for the crossarm.  Can you post a pic.  Also a while back a forum member did a huge post on pics of utility poles, look that one up.  Lot of great ideas.  PRR middle division (Neil Schorr) had Weaver models produce a very attractive product as well.   Good luck!

Chris

Dremel

Chris, utility poles...   I will follow up on what you mention in prior posts and post a picture of the notch in day or so.

Thanks for your help!

Thanks Arthur!!

I made some years ago and I believe it was Dave's method. I lost my instruction sheet. 

I recall scraping the pole length wise with my fine cutoff blade to striate the pole. I then use the saw to cut groves for the cross members. I then notched it out with a utility blade. I also recall having a file in which I could clean out the notch. The file was the thickness of the grove and I used the side of the file. Then I did the beads and brace support out of a common pin.

Thanks Don, I'll try to locate a file that will fit the notch as that sounds like the way to go!

Years ago when I made some poles for my layout I scratched the length of the poles with my zona saw fine tooth blade. Once I finished that with the poles I wanted to make I would put 5 or 6 at a time against my miter fence on my table saw and set the table saw blade up about a 1/16" maybe a touch more then run the poles through the saw where I wanted the notch for the cross arm. It was pretty quick and the narrow with of the blade cut for the notch fit the cross arm perfectly. Hope this helps. Happy Thanksgiving!

Why do electric poles have 3 wires?

Thanks Al...   did you use a dado stack to notch the grooves and just do a few passes with the regular saw blade?

did you use a dado stack to notch the grooves and just do a few passes with the regular saw blade?

Gene, I just did several passes with a standard blade.

Why do electric poles have 3 wires?

 

Hot / Com / Ground

Thanks again Al...   and a Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!

3 phases, neutral is generated with a isolation transformer and the ground is local.

AG.