Some new additions for the Pinco string.

... color? Have see plenty of other small suspensions but never one this shade of blue/gray ...

Was in Northern Nevada with Dutch this weekend. As usual we (I) spend my time after chores looking for goodies. Found this single little Line Materials 6" suspension dated 1961. Normally would not give these guys a ...

I couldn't resist incorporating suspensions in our christmas decor ...

This tower is near Southampton in the south of England.

These are two I cleaned

These suspensions are hung in chains of 21 which will weigh 555 lbs. The suspension towers have two chains on each ...

This is my recent purchase of large suspensions, 31 in total with there packing crates. There are also 5 smaller ones as well. They were bought ...

These little brushes are used with suspensions in reduced tension or "slack span" applications to prevent noise from arcing ...

... a small pump. Lots of good stuff here; suspensions, delta brackets, secondary glass, wood pin arm and pins, eye bolt etc ...

Humm, I wonder who made those suspensions? This tap off the main line was for a pump, installed later with # 4ACSR wire, not # 4 strand ...

The corner pole, re-insulated with the second suspension at a later date. Neat old metal high voltage signs.

And here they are ! A fine addition. Now I have a new problem- they use a ball socket type hanger, that is MUCH smaller than the US version...

Ten minutes later, I'm making some headway. I feel like I'm trying to free up a fossil from solid rock !

My suspensions from Italy came today- packaged in this nice souvineer Italian milk crate ...

These are glass lampshades at Lowe's, but I thought up another use for them. And they're on sale, too!

... ;You know, these would make some great suspensions..." ...

... poles, and more of the overhead power suspensions, above the tracks ...

or a similar one, cleaned up and without the metal parts. This one is clearly marked Richard Ginori

without its metal suspension brackets, and a similarly olive-green colored porcelain "Weitschirm" style power insulator. These may have been manufactires in the 1930s by Verbano. I'll post a close-up of the ...

... the U-802s, along with a couple small suspensions serving as dead-ends ...

Bob Scafe, and myself, with the successful transfer of insulators ! The "Transcontinental Suspension Insulator Exchange " has, thus far, been a success ! Thanks go out to Bob, James, and Joe the trucker !

A closer look at one of the dead end poles making the "jog" in the streets on Minnehaha St. in Twin Rocks, OR. One can hear the power making a constant zapping noise as the salt air tries to flash the ...

This is the first switch set on the Timber Tap line. The switch is an older type on huge multipart bus insulators. More pyrex suspension disks are in use here.

This is the dead end pole structure for the Timber Tap. It has recently had new poles installed but, lo and behold.....they actually re-used the old suspension strings with the pyrex glass!!! Assuming that they don't ...