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WESTERN REGION FINDS
I'm sure many of you were wondering what happened to Mac and his column. Then
there were probably many of you who hadn't noticed I'd been gone. Well, for all
of you, I'm back! And I do mean back, Believe It Or Not!!
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| | Walking The Lines
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| | by Dan Kelly
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Memorial Day weekend was coming up fast. For months my wife and I had been
planning a trip to Toronto. On the agenda was line searching and sightseeing. We
both took a couple of extra days off to make a mini vacation of it.
I got off
work Thursday and dropped the boys at the babysitter's and proceeded to load the
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| | Casa de Madera
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Casa de Madera
Constructed of giant redwoods which towered over the plains of Colorado some
50 million years ago, "Casa de Madera" utilizes these petrified
remains from the Farmington sandstone. Nestled in Madera Cove the structure seems
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| | Ask Woody
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| | by N. R. Woodward
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N. R. "Woody" Woodward is the author of The Glass Insulator
in America, 1988 Report and developed
the Consolidated Design Numbers identification system for glass insulators.
QUESTION: Is the smaller Pyrex CD 128 type piece embossed: (F-Skirt)
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Elton Gish, NIA #41
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Various people have reported similar markings on multipart porcelain
insulators that we still have not been able to confirm with 100% certainty. The
marking is always weak in one area or another making it impossible to
determine the date. However, with several reports I believe that I can now make
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| | The "Blue" One
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| | by Walter Knopf
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I fondly remember how my love of insulators began. It was in April of 1976
and I was 15. My friend and I decided to go mushroom hunting about a mile down a
gravel road from my home. He parked the truck at the side of the road near the
mushroom spot. I was familiar with this road because I had traveled it many
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