Threaded Eye Bolt

[Bowline]

Is any one using uninsulated threaded eye bolts for secondary attachments???

[MI-Lineman]

Just for house neutrals usually? Or I guess those secondary dead end dog bones too?

[lewy]

We never use insulators at the neutral either, never quite figured out why some place do it. I have seen a lot of different places that do it then have the neutral jumped out with the down ground.

[topgroove]

Yeah, we stopped insulating the nuetral about fifteen years ago. Hey, becarefull if you change out a three spool rack and you have a eye bolt on the backside. No more resting the hotlegs on the steel anymore.

[Bowline]

That's coool we'v always tide off to anythin g on the neutral spool wheter insilated or not... I'm only in businesss for 4 years but I'v seen aklot of the countri and alo]ot of differnt ideas since I have become my JL.

[Liledgy]

We've always used threaded thimble eyes, oval eyes or twin eyes for services. Dead end the neutral on a bale deadend and heat it up. I NEVER liked deadending services on the back of racks or the system neutral because it always seems to come back and haunt you ( if you ran new secondaries you would have to catch off the services) Just drill another hole! Most of the time we use dowsers ( nuetral tack offs) and deadend the services on the triplex. Also for the apes, at the transformer poles always deadend the services on the opposite side of the transformer. When you have to change it out you won't have to fight the services ( except phone and cable). That always been a pet peeve of mine, keep the transformer side of the pole clean I'd possible.

[reppy007]

all places have different methods,rules,m/o,we do both ,j-hooks,spools ,threaded eye bolts ,butterflys,ect, i dont see any problem neither,done it for years,but thinking about the (why) question ),i came up with a couple,osha,maybe,but i dont think so,liability as for the companies are concerned,maybe , then what i think,and seen alot broken pre-forms right there where the pressure is ,on the inside of the eye-bolt,threaded eye-bolt,j-hook and butter fly,on a spool ,with its porcelin texture i have never seen that happen,as the years go by there are many of storms and high winds causing the material to break,usually back there where there is a little rust behind the point of attachment,you know where.at the u piont of the pre-form,,,,,,,i have another question ,might seem dumb to others but ill ask due to the fact that ,i havent been around the delta system much,, seen some stuff while i was on vacation years back in california,around monterrey i think,delta, no neutral,im not used to that kind of shit,seen some places where they have these half cross-arms at the secondary,not used to that either,waste of material,seen some things in san antonio,that seemed like a sub-station,ohh did i say while on vacation?shit ok,i know you guys will forgive me for looking at lines while off the clock ,but thats what lineman do,now wondering how many women have slapped lineman for that shit,really we have the wye system here ,and to places that ive worked,but id be lost if thrown into that pit,actually as steve jobs would say,it would be new,and new things are exciting,old things just die,but im wondering if im the only one thats not up to speed on that system,and if theres a big difference,seen some services go to the pole and have so much material on that area that i could swear it was a mini-substation,just need some feed back to another (why)