Excellent job

I really like the design. Repeatability aside, how is your printing cost compared to styrene parts? Are we bringing the home printers down to reasonable costs? 
 

@ Greg

Nicely done! There is a manufacturer that makes those particular poles, as well as other wooden 2 pole design like we have here in PA.

Cost

Well I am not going to look at the cost of the printer as I have more than paid for it already. If I look at the materials the cost of the filament is about 6 cents per meter, I have no idea what the beads cost and the wire was maybe a buck, so I would have to say they would price out at about  50 cents each of which the actual printing cost is about 8 cents.

Greg

Two questions and a comment

1. Have you considered posting the files somewhere where others with printers could use them? (I have a friend with one...)

2. They look like they come out with a fair amount of flash on them - how difficult was it to clean them up, particularly around the crossbars?

3. They look really nice.

posting

Actually there wasn't as much flash as you might think. What you see in the first photo is the support filament as the pole is actually off of the print surface. Most of this is gone when you separate the pole from the raft. Not much clean up at all, hobby knife and a file, takes a minute or so.

Tried to make a link here but the server said the .stl was in invalid extension.

Greg

Tichy insulators

Tichy makes insulators.  Part #8158, 24 for $3.50 or a bulk package.  Nice work on the poles.  A lot of these power lines follow old interurban right-of-ways.

Robert

This is the first time I’ve ever..........

..........seen this type of telephone/power pole.  They are pretty different looking.  What is the logic to the design and why are they only found in the Midwest?

Peter

I don't think they are just

I don't think they are just in the midwest. The poles are meant for high voltage. I have been out of the industry for some time but I believe they typically carry 4160 volts or 13.8KV. The design is to provide adequate separation between the 2 phases but with a smaller footprint that having the lines in a horizontal row.

Greg

Out here in the West high voltage is always carried on steel

towers, so I've never seen those type of poles.  I've driven across the Midwest 6 times or more, but never noticed those.  I'll need to take a closer look next time I'm in the Midwest.

Those poles & insulators look good.

Out West

In the intermountain part of the West where I live, this style of pole/crossarms is very common.

The other varieties from Dimensional Modeling Concepts shown above are also common across much of the West.   https://dmcrrproducts.com/shop/page/5/

Interesting poles

  I have lived in the Midwest 50 years and my dad worked for the power company so we had to hear about power all the time, but I don't recall ever seeing those before.   Until I read that I assumed they were European poles of some type.

@Greg Put it on Thingiverse.

Hi Greg.

Put the stl up on Thingiverse and then just post a link to the model here. 
 

Great model by the way.

Nice!

Very nice poles.  Thanks for posting.