Here's another interesting view on some suspension insulators. For 10 KV normaly one insulator will be used, for 30 KV two of this insulators will be needed! This brown insulators are made of ceramic.

... wiring to lightning protection to suspensions, mulitparts and substation stuff; west coast to east coast, canadian to mexico, australia to france ...

... fit and side pins added. Carnival suspensions frame the photo ...

... rummage around through for some suspensions. We were there for about 5 hours. We were going to be heading home soon and I had asked if we could ...

... 100 years! The small dead-end looking suspensions on the right were actually used for the phone line, and date to 1913 when the upgrade to ... suspensions was performed. They are the same glaze and metal shell as the Locke Victor suspensions. The first ...

... gotta be heavy... some of the Tracy, CA suspensions ...

... ago to some powerlines that had colbalt suspensions on them and took some pictures, but not to sure of the make ...

A better shot of the O-B suspension clamp.

A few interesting pieces of hardware gathered from the utility dumpster today. From left to right: U Bolt clamps, O-B suspension clamp, Vibration Damper, Delta Bracket, two more O-B clamps.

interesting, I should go there..

This very unusual insulator was made by Ohio Brass in the mid to late 1920's. It was used on the ends of arcing horns at the end of a suspension string. The purpose was to control the flux or arc caused by electrical ...

The brown 10 kV Deltas and the suspension at home. The other suspension and some Deltas I gave to Miklos at next day.

... pieces 10 kV Deltas and two porcelain suspensions. I sorry, I don't wait the Insulator finding, and I have not tools ...

Here are some of the Ohio Brass Suspensions after cleaning before they are installed in my display ...

Sometimes I wish I had a truck.............................. [IFONA]

... from a local 60 KV line in Tracy, the suspensions are Sediver were obtained from a collector in Sunnyvale, Calif. My thanks to the other collectors ...

... in use. When I changed out a string of suspensions, the older string being installed was shorter than the one being removed so this piece of recently ...

... were removed, conductors slacked off, suspensions removed, old arm stripped of hardware and removed. Then the process was reversed for installation ...

... with double arms and wood braces. The suspensions are O-B #8830 10" units obtained from two collectors in Northern Calif. The two Multi-parts on ...

This is a static clip, used to provide a solid connection where two suspension insulators are connected together in a reduced tension or slack span for AM radio interference. This is the first one of this type that I've ...

... transformer bracket, Lapp gray 10" suspensions dated 1985 from a local 115 KV line, Lapp brown 9" HI-F suspensions dated 1964, Locke 4" ...

A longshot photo of the Oregon City wooden suspension bridge that carries the power line described in the last photo. The view is looking west toward the town of West Linn. This bridge was replaced by a gracefully ...

... Thomas M-4420, I am not sure what the suspensions are but they are old. Notice the wooden guy strain insulator, coming up in the next photo. Photos ...

This is a picture of the suspension bridge before completion. Notice union troops heading south into covington on a temporary wooden bridge.

The same seen in vice versa [IFONA U]