Most of these have now come down from the Pacific Northwest. There used to be thousands of them used on a nearby reservoir line before they were exchanged out in the 60s. So it was a treat to see these used in a local ...
Posted by (private) on June 19, 2007 - 0.2kb
There stays the 3rd console for suspensions ...
Posted by Zoltán Drinóczi on June 16, 2007 - 0.0kb
4 120 kV Long Rod suspensions and 2 20 kV line post Insulators ...
Posted by Zoltán Drinóczi on June 16, 2007 - 0.1kb
This is an insulator in use on Whidbey Island in an area near Bayview Washington. I don't know the CD number, and have no idea what company made it.
(Updated information)
I have since been told that this insulator ...
Posted by Dan Culver on June 16, 2007 - 0.3kb
The two new members of the Missouri Valley Insulator Club. Rick Soller and Strain Suspension. Its obivious that Wayne Alexander has way to much free time. He started creating more insulator buddies.
Posted by Russ Frank on June 11, 2007 - 0.2kb
... carried back home: four small suspensions VERBANO V333 for medium voltage (7" dia), all mfd in 1950, and four telephone insulators ( ...
Posted by Nora Coppo on June 9, 2007 - 0.2kb
This is a early June 2007 eBay auction by a Salinas, CA seller. The insulator on the left is a Locke No. 23, but what is that thing on the right?
Answer: The consensus opinion is a French glass suspension insulator ...
Posted by Colin Jung on June 5, 2007 - 0.2kb
Photographed in the center of this town. Most of the lines on the shorter crossarms in this photo likely carried local electrical distribution circuits. Note the vintage pole-mounted transformer on the pole in the ...
Posted by Joe Maurath, Jr. on May 29, 2007 - 0.3kb
I had been busy running around taking pictures. When I returned to my table, Sandy Beutle called my name, and as I turned, got my picture taken. Good friends, Sandy and Frank Beutle had driven down from Kelowna, B.C.for ...
Posted by Bob Scafe on May 29, 2007 - 0.9kb
It is Friday afternoon and there is still some room to set up additional tables. Before all was said and done, there was not much free space available. Paul is standing in front of his table while Dave is standing ...
Posted by Bob Scafe on May 29, 2007 - 0.6kb
A early opportunity for a dive at the local utility trash bin yielded some suspension treasures.
Posted by Jim Decker on May 27, 2007 - 0.1kb
Another view: suspensions and plastic lightning arrestors: one suspension in hungarian manufactured Zsolnay, others are ...
Posted by Zoltán Drinóczi on May 26, 2007 - 0.2kb
So what do you do with a couple of suspensions. . . and you only have one of each?. . . yep. . . make a windchime that is the ENVY of the ...
Posted by (private) on May 21, 2007 - 0.2kb
This is a better photo than the one I posted earlier, shows the side "groove" view". This is the only French pintype insulator marked LEV (L'Elecctro Verre). The next photo sill show the top ...
Posted by Edward Brown on May 21, 2007 - 0.3kb
OK . . . it is an illness but. . . I am confident that there are others out there who can relate! Was at a local flea market today and spied two boxes of . . . .INSULATORS! OK. . . all porcelain but for 10 bones who ...
Posted by (private) on May 20, 2007 - 0.5kb
... today's hunt are these three 10" suspensions (type 1434) in white version marked FIL (1917-1937) and dating april 1932. Here are on the way back ...
Posted by Nora Coppo on May 12, 2007 - 0.2kb
Open and enclosed arc lights for street lighting were soon widely superceded by incandescent lights soon after 1912. About that year a major advancement in tungsten filament technology quickly made these "new" ...
Posted by Joe Maurath, Jr. on May 10, 2007 - 0.9kb
... bird feeder or a bird bath from various suspensions I have accumulated. It figures that I need other styles that I didn't have on hand, so I owe a ...
Posted by James Mulvey on May 2, 2007 - 0.5kb
On a east central SD municipal system
Posted by (private) on April 14, 2007 - 0.0kb
Classic MV suspension for 2 or 3 elements chain (used for MV) type L'Electro Verre 1508 T.
Posted by Nora Coppo on April 10, 2007 - 0.1kb
Pole for an Alabama Electric Cooperative 46 kV transmission line. This pole has had new suspension insulators installed.
Posted by John Lucas on April 7, 2007 - 0.1kb
... back... looks like some 10" disc suspensions were pressed into service as guy wire insulators. Oddly, they aparently thought better of it at a ...
Posted by Paul Greaves on April 6, 2007 - 0.2kb
The new French TGV (Train Grand Vitesse) train, reportedly travelled at a record-setting 357 MPH (about 575 KM/H). I hope there are no cattle standing on the tracks...
Electric powered, note the suspension insulators.
Posted by Edward Brown on April 3, 2007 - 0.2kb
A 1908 Duncan patent suspension (marked VICTOR on the skirt)
with a M-2795 Gutter top thrown in for size compairison . Folloew this link to see these incredable historic insulators in service...
Posted by Mike Spadafora on April 1, 2007 - 0.2kb
This is an orignal photo of the first (as far as I know) 100kv line built . It was also the forst steel tower suspension line ... The grandfather of all modern suspension type construction steel tower transmition lines ...
Posted by Mike Spadafora on April 1, 2007 - 0.9kb
