The picture shows what I believe are called "sectionalizing" switches. There are two switches in the picture. The main reason for taking the picture was the Bowl type Sediver Glass insulators. These are in ...

This is one that Pavel Yelkin had listed, a glass suspension "PS70E" which appears to be the same one as this one manufactured by Yuznouralsk: http://www.uik.ru/ru/3.pid_37.html Update 02 DEC 2005: There ...

This pole also has some JD blue suspension disks. I actually had to get out of the car and walk into an alley to get a better view of this one. Notice the red lower shell on the closest Locke M-2360 multipart. I used to ...

The first pole on the single phase tap. It is a dead-end with a slack span to the main line. Good old brown suspension disks and brown multiparts. You won't see this type of line construction again. Once it's ...

A close up of the suspensions and the odd gap type lightning arrestors on multipart insulators. The high voltage input is 7200/12 ...

This little substation sits right on Highway 101 at the North end of Lincoln City, on the Oregon Coast. I am not a suspension insulator expert but I think these might be Lapps. They were also used on some of the older ...

A single 7" suspension on a 12 KV dead end. The mud pin type also appeared in the early 1960's. I think its an AB Chance or OB product.

... operating base. More pictures in the Suspensions folder ...

A friend of mine currently stationed in Iraq sent me several insulators he found near his forward operating base. This is an 11 inch triple skirt, embossed CTS 120-2P FIES 1987 RSR 5 between the skirts. The cap has 507 ...

No embossing on the glass, but the cap has: EIV 83 on one side and: U-300F08 / ME66000LBS / (Symbol) on the other. Not much to look at until you start comparing it to a few other items...

Side - by side comparison with a standard pyrex sombrero.

Here's a look at the base of these two suspensions compared to a standard Pyrex Carnival Sombrero ...

... comparison of the MOAS (Mother Of All Suspensions) with a Muncie ...

... comparison of the MOAS (Mother Of All Suspensions) with a Muncie. The suspension measures 15 inches across and is 10 inches tall. It weighs in at 35 ...

Fog-type disks on a 115kV corner pole.

Early suspension line with steel arm

Here's a close-up the VIFOSA embossing on a killer 6 inch glass suspension insulator ashtray. There are now 3 known in the hobby. Made in Brazil. [GIFONA]

Here's the king of insulator go-withs! A Brazilian manufactured suspension insulator marked VIFOSA ISOLADORES (embossed on the glass!) And its marked again on the hard plastic base that it sets upon: ISOLADORES VIFOSA ...

Pyrex Suspension

This is a picture of some huge high voltage lines in IL. They run from Palatine to Barrington and have these huge suspension insulators. The poles are at least 75 feet high sticking out of the ground!! I remember these ...

Here is an interesting find for me. A porcelain Long Rod insulator. These are usually found mostly in Europe but I was able to find this one among some samples that were heading off to the dumpster. The caps on either ...

Here's a cast iron arc horn that clamps onto the "spider" of a J-D suspension disk. Weathered but very solid. I have just one of the original bolts, the other snapped on me during dissasembly. Add a little ...

A CD 221 on a streetlight circuit in Buena Vista, Colorado. These circuits hold some nice insulators, like the (porcelain version of) a CD 252, a CD 257 here and there... Small glass suspension bowls, and glass spools.

Here is a close up of the bottom of the insulator string. These bells are most likely OHIO BRASS.

One of 3 strings of suspensions that are used on a 345kV New York State Power Authority line. Most of the suspensions on this line ...