Here is a string of PINCO suspensions I just installed. The gray bell on the top is a 1978 PINCO and the rest are 1980. By this time ...
Posted by Philip Franco on September 14, 2005 - 0.2kb
This rack displays some of Bob's Australian suspension insulators. The crossarm is topped with threaded pieces, also from Australia. A very artistic display!
Posted by (private) on September 14, 2005 - 0.2kb
Another view of the last two suspension poles. I really line how the line moves here.
Posted by Joel Goff on September 13, 2005 - 0.1kb
Next actual pole down the line. More suspensions, Ohio Brass. This pole carries the line on over the creek where it deadends at a tree. It branches ...
Posted by Joel Goff on September 13, 2005 - 0.2kb
... this "pole" . It has some suspensions I found along the highway. Also has a couple pintype insulators on top of the crossarm. Took some ...
Posted by Joel Goff on September 13, 2005 - 0.5kb
... see is the buckets have multi parts and suspensions and the blue boxes have TONS of steel pins and the wood boxes have Insulator posts and meters. ...
Posted by Zachary Gillihan on September 11, 2005 - 0.8kb
Here is a color that you don't see on the standard 4 1/2 inch bells very often. The Mahogany color reminds me of the old PINCO glazes. This insulator is incruse (1987) and was made by VICTOR.
Posted by Philip Franco on September 10, 2005 - 0.2kb
Here is a better picture from the Romanian 750 kV line.
One chain has 44 Insulators:
24x44=1056 in straining
and 12x44=528 in holding.
Summa 1584 Insultaors on this trio pole!! And I don't counted the ones on the ...
Posted by Zoltán Drinóczi on September 5, 2005 - 0.3kb
This suspension insulator was in service on the earliest electric railways in Italy, in the 1910s. It's totally unmarked and still in good conditions. Thanx to my friend Mario
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Posted by Nora Coppo on September 3, 2005 - 0.2kb
Here is another group of suspensions which I have hangin around in my basement. The 10 inchers on the right are all Ohio Brass 1948, and ...
Posted by Philip Franco on September 2, 2005 - 0.2kb
I looked around one of the tower bases (see Substation in Lenox Ma pics i posted in the Line Construction Details folder) and came across these Locke ten inchers which a small tree has decided to grow around.
Posted by Wayne Allen on August 31, 2005 - 0.2kb
Suspension line and post type.
Posted by (private) on August 25, 2005 - 0.0kb
Here are some caps and pins I salvaged from broken suspension units. I restore the metal and sometimes apply a painted finish. Any portion of the hardware which will come in contact with cement, receives a black tar ...
Posted by Philip Franco on August 24, 2005 - 0.3kb
... restaurant to eat pizza and found many suspensions used to hold plants, like this one ...
Posted by Nora Coppo on August 21, 2005 - 0.1kb
This is the iron cap of a RICHARD GINORI 2024 insulator: a 10" brown glazed suspension mfd just after the WW2. Unusual find in Tuscany...
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Posted by Nora Coppo on August 16, 2005 - 0.1kb
... old insulators with new ones (Fidenza suspensions ...
Posted by Nora Coppo on August 16, 2005 - 0.1kb
Here's a shot of a string of glass suspensions. Don't see these around this area very often ...
Posted by Wayne Allen on August 13, 2005 - 0.1kb
Here's a closeup of one of the suspension strings. I believe these are 10 inchers. Also looks like a few got shot out.
Posted by Wayne Allen on August 13, 2005 - 0.1kb
Here's one of the towers with long suspension strings and what looks like doughnut shaped metal cages of some sort.
Posted by Wayne Allen on August 13, 2005 - 0.1kb
... some really pretty yellow/green glass suspensions made by Sediver. They were removed from service and saved from the dumpster of doom over in Tracy ...
Posted by Tom Miller on August 6, 2005 - 0.2kb
... picture of the Tracy, California suspensions. I just love this color of glass, it glows in the hot Texas sun ...
Posted by Tom Miller on August 6, 2005 - 0.1kb
Here are just a few of the Tracy Glass suspensions that were removed from service on a line located in Tracy, California and saved by Mr. Jim Decker ...
Posted by Tom Miller on August 6, 2005 - 0.4kb
Found these nice orange Lapp suspensions today along an old 34kV line. The units are marked "LAPP 15000, 1953." ...
Posted by Philip Franco on July 31, 2005 - 0.1kb
... around). The insulators are Sediver-suspensions insulators. The insualtor chains have three insulator disks each ...
Posted by Markus Branse on July 29, 2005 - 0.3kb
A closer view on the suspensions...
Posted by Markus Branse on July 29, 2005 - 0.0kb