kurt Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 Check out this sign I salvaged..... It's iron w/enameled finish; it weighs about 10 pounds. The washer(s) in the corners are lead. The colors of the enameling are amazing. How about them lightning bolts? Whadda'yall think? 1920's? Download Attachment: electricsign.jpg 79.78 KB Download Attachment: electricsign.X .jpg 77.98 KB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 Very kewl! I used to see 'em by the transformer housings at the railroad tracks near my house when I was growing up. They'd be all shot up by hunters. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homnspector Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 I just wonder how many people are going to die because you removed that sign.[:-weepn] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted November 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 Originally posted by homnspector I just wonder how many people are going to die because you removed that sign.[:-weepn] It wasn't on any equipment; it was in a junk pile. I would never even get near the sort of equipment that sign was on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonTx Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 One has to wonder why you were digging in a junk pile for signs......[:-dev3] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 Aw come on Don, It's the Big Dirty. I should think that one would be able to find all sorts of fascinating junk in Chicago - old concrete galoshes dredged up off the bottom of the river, the occasional piece of speakeasy paraphernalia, etc.. Might even turn up an old gun or two![] ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted November 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 I was inspecting an old 2 flat/commercial building once where there was an old license on the wall from about 1924. The license was a dual license for both a bar & a polling office, i.e., you could have a beer while you waited to vote. Only in Chicago..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradd Judd Posted November 6, 2005 Report Share Posted November 6, 2005 Kurt, Pretty Cool!!! I just find the old style railroad glass insulators..... maybe I need to get into the city more often for inspections......... Thanks, Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted November 6, 2005 Report Share Posted November 6, 2005 Kurt, You just reminded me of how, last week, I dated when a basement was hollowed out under a bungalow that was originally built on posts on piers - they'd nailed an old license plate, face out, to the inside of the forms and then placed the concrete, leaving a perfect imprint of the plate in the wall. That's how I knew it couldn't have been done prior to 1928 (House was built in 1920). Kind of kewl. All they'd have to do was paint the thing and it'd look like a perfectly preserved plate. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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