Exact location unknown but this image has the best of all worlds...the electric distribution pole in the foreground outfitted with what look like CD 162's; a suspension arc light to the left and open wire telephone ...

New use for this old FIL 1434 dating 1926: the cross has been soldered to the cap. Here on the cemetery wall.

Closeup of the insulator supported by another insulator, Main & Jackson St., Louisville, Ky.

This series-system streetlight at Jackson & Main St. in Louisville, Ky. has its line wire strain insulator supported by a suspension insulator above. The old high voltage series wiring was retired not long after ...

This Pacific Power pole is located not too far south of Eugene, OR. and right along side the Interstate 5 freeway. The suspension insulators carry 115,000 volts. This particular 2 crossarm configuration was installed on ...

My first time with E-Bay ! (I'm evolving...) This small suspension has no markings. Has anyone seen them before? Who made it ? I would like to have afew more...

This is a new member to suspensionville LAPP 1965 fog suspension Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy

... one. Lviv manufactures mostly glass suspensions, and other electrical distribution hardware. Their pintypes that I know of are CD 304.5, CD 522.5, ...

At one time I had a 17.5 inch dia. glass suspension. This picture shows a 15 inch above a common Sediver 10 inch. I am curious what is the largest glass and largest porcelain suspension known.

All three phases shown, notice that the suspension clamp (shoe) for the middle phase only has two bolts in it.

... back I spotted this angle pole, the suspensions looked decent ...

From "Electricity For Everyone", by Joseph R. Lunt, late Professor of Science at Rohde Island College of Eductaion, and William T. Wyman, Practical Electrician & Chairman of Electrical Dept., Central High ...

Here's a detailed shot.

Near Hyder, Arizona, a pair of JD suspensions used on guy wires ...

Each arc light manufacturer who made arc lights for street lighting service since day one used either pintype insulators or spools mounted on top of the fixture to accept the line wire which was draped from these ...

This is another photo of a suspension style arc lamp street light. These were very popular during the 1890-1910 era. This fixture like most other arc lights was reeled in or lowered to the ground via a pulley mechanism ...

... straighten the display, and re-hang the suspensions. Right now at -25F it is too cold to consider the task. Besides, a nice warm cup of coffee sounds ...

On Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 9th, 2007, the winds began to blow. Not too badly, about 45-50 mph. I looked out the livingroom window which gives onto the Insulator Field. Everything was looking good, although a few strings ...

This is our load of porcelain we got from our recent road trip from Eastern, PA. We don't know the U numbers but there is a Glass Lightning Arrestor made by The Line Material Company, one Fred M. Locke signal, two ...

I finnally have some cobalt suspensions ! Now all I need is some heavy dudy hardware so I can hang them... hint, hint, hint ...

... to finally get three strings of cobalt suspensions for my own display. The following pics are of Curtis' outdoor displays... Thanks again to Ann, Ron ...

The ever growing Suspensionville...

... . While it was easy to find undamaged suspensions, all the line insulators that I ever found had significant damage due to dumping and subsequent ...

Single suspension in the weeds.

The extremely rare and valuable EIV green glass suspension disk, with WRDPs (Water Round Drip Points) It was a dark and rainy night... (I posted this one last summer under "fun stuff",)