All the extra "stuff" out of a Keene, NH collection! A load of porcelain insulators, strains, knobs, capacitors, brackets etc. Everything in the picture, (except the wheelbarrow) goes for $25. Come and get it ...

This is a picture of a LOCKE suspension insulator that a friend of mine would sell if anyone is interested in it. The marking is LOCKE/ 1944/ USA if you can not make out the details in the photo.

... car UNDER the 165 line! Note how the suspensions are themselves suspended from a cable between two poles ...

... with 4 wires, each dead ended with 4 suspensions = 55kV. Two circuits of DC? No way would they overinsulate a neutral on a WYE configuration ...

Note the setup here. 4 suspension for dead ending = 55kV ? There's a pintype insulator on the top right of the pole. It blends in with the rocks on the hillside behind it so it's hard to see. Looks like the wire on is ...

... ' kind of pole construction and thomas suspensions. Today there is a 115kv line that runs past this spot but one old 55kv line has been removed and ...

WRDP (Water Round Drip Points) night time shot, and yes, it was raining.

... , we will get some 120 kV posts, glass suspensions, long rods stc ...

More suspensions ...

Check out just thes suspensions ...

A whole crate full of pretty, new, shiny, Lapp brown mud suspension disks. I wasn't about to try to walk off with it... It weighs about 120 pounds, and those four guys with the grey paint were just across the street... ...

... 1987 incruse on the bottom skirt. These suspensions are usually produced with Gray #70 (light gray), Chocholate or dark gray (slate) colored glazes ...

... is the string of the ITE Imperial Corp. Suspensions ...

This is a close up shot of the incruse marking on a ITE Imperial Corp. Suspension. These units are used exclusively on EHV transmission lines where heavy spans exist.

... pumpkin colored glaze Ohio Brass 6 inch suspensions/strains in a local Texas flea market this weekend. The unit is marked 10000 LB and dated 1961. The ...

This is a side view of the caramel colored glaze Ohio Brass 10 inch ball & socket fog suspension insulator I found this week at a Texas flea market. The unit is marked 15000 LB and has a sandblast date code for ...

This is a bottom view of the caramel colored glaze Ohio Brass 10 inch ball & socket fog suspension insulator I found this week at a Texas flea market. The unit is marked 15000 LB and has a sandblast date code for ...

... picture of the "Tracy green" suspensions from Jim Decker ... from Tracy Ca. sparked my interest in suspensions. Nathan Lamkey hauled them to Salem Oregon, then Ben Kirsten drove them to Battle Ground Washington ...

Long chain of suspensions for a 220 kV line near Genoa: taller than a man! (PS: note the horns and the ring against arcing ...

... . Now there are new Insulators: Glass suspensions and new Furukawa composite rods for the high voltage measurigs with big sparks ...

Golly Ned, Mr. Wizard (Ed Brown), is that what you do with a suspension insulator after all the hardware has been removed?

Here's one of the chains I got. 3 of them are 1938 ones and the one at the end is a 1937 date. The older 1937 ones are stamped on the underneath rim (see other picture).

Here's a brown suspension with JD on the cap. Jeffery-Dewitt right? I'm new to 'mud' but really getting into high voltage pieces and related stuff.

Here's the date stamp on a locke suspension. These chains have three consecutive Thomas insulators and a Locke at the end. I think the line was upgraded at a later time.

Here's the date stamp on one of them.