Ever wonder what those suspensions look like underneath the metal caps? Well here ya are. One is marked BBC. Two are ITE 1970, and the ...

... 2 EIV suspension, and 3 older porcelain suspensions ...

... suspension display rack for 6 of my suspensions. I will tie the insulators to the wood with wire, then bolt the rack upright to my wall where it ...

This is a rack I built to hold six 10inch ball & socket suspension insulators. The next picture shows the finished display.

Here is a neat Locke fog suspension. What's really interesting about this insulator, is that the porcelain is exactly the same as that of a Lapp fog suspension I have.

Here is a Hewlett suspension made by THOMAS. It has a 11-29 manufacture date.

Here are a few old Ohio Brass suspensions with a 1917 patent date. These usually come in a sandy brown or a pine green color ...

... a string of yellowish/orange Ohio Brass suspensions I just installed ...

A nice blue glazed OB suspension with a 36,000 M&E rating.

Here is a close up view of the top entering ball/socket cap. The pin in the bottom of these insulators is identical to that of a traditional ball/socket suspension.

here are some old Locke suspensions with the "top entering ball & socket connection." This design was an attempt to get ...

... them in earlier days. The Cobalt Blue suspensions came from another ICON member in northern Calif. Although both types of insulators are of recent ...

One new pole top set and suspensions hung, an existing one re-framed for a 60KV multi display ...

Here's some J-D's with mounting plates on each end I found this past Sunday. I believe these are called posts. I found them almost totally buried, assembled in sets of three. These three were the only good ones, the ...

Here are 2 old Lapp fog type suspensions. Note the charring on the surface. There is no doubt used in a highly contaminated environment. ...

... transformer busbar on Italian FIDENZA suspensions ...

Here's a cast iron arc horn that clamps onto the "spiders" of the J-D suspension disks. Rusty and pitted but very solid. Sounds worse than it is. I had to cut through the bolts with a hack saw to get it off ...

This one is not in the greatest of shape but it sure has nice color!

At Friday we got a hard wind storm. Before it here was an ice and show storm with lightning, and after is about 120-140 km/h fast wind storm. You look it on this photo, the suspension Insulators are suspending in about ...

I have a few Sediver CT4R2M, 5-1/4 inch glass suspension insulator, ANSI class 52-9, rated at 10,000 pounds M&E. Glass shell is clear and is 5-1/4 inch across. These are new made by Sediver in Brazil. I am asking ...

I have a few Sediver CT8, 10-inch suspension insulators for sale. These are rated at 20,000 pounds M&E, ANSI class 52-4, weighs about 9 pounds. Glass shell is clear and is about 10-inches across. I am asking $15.00 ...

I have a few of the Sediver N12P/146DC fog type glass insulators for sale. These are rated at 25,000 pounds M&E, the glass is a neat ice aqua color and measures about 10-inches across the widest part of the shell. ...

I have a few Sediver ST-160, 6-inch glass distribution deadend insulators for sale. Rated at 10,000 pounds M&E, ANSI class 52-1. These are new glass insulators made by Sediver in Brazil. It weighs about 4 pounds. ...

Here is Iryna at an exhibit recently held in Poland, behind her are some of Lviv Insulator Company's glass products. The two pintype insulators are a HC 18 A / NS 18 A (CD 522.5) and a ShS 10 D (CD 638). the smaller CD ...

The suspension disks travel down the conveyer belt, on to the next step in the process. [IFONA]