"PMG telephone line strainer."
Oh how may of them would there be out there
What age?
Ian
There would be more then you think Ian.
I started my apprenticeship in the early 80's. Some of the line trucks still had them on board. Don't know if it was laziness or they still used them. Assume laziness.
I'm just trying to think..... These were used before the time what we called dead-ends were used when you terminate the overhead wires. Dead ends are those preformed bits of bent wire that wrap around an insulator and hold the tension in the wire. Not the intermediate insulating pins, I mean terminating the wire on the discs or bobbins.
It's all coming back to me. These suckers with the leather strap were not used to create a lot of tension. Only low tension. There were other grabs used for high tensions and we even used rope tied onto the wire in a special way as to not distort/bend the cable instead of grabs.
Similar items to what you've shown are still used today for twisted services or bundled conductors which only require low tensions.
Cheers Scott