Insulators

Recreation, Collecting, Insulators, For Sale - Open Wire Insulator Services. This commercial site presents the details of a full range of collector services including on-line insulator auctions and consignment services, augmented by an optional full-color hardcopy catalog.

Insulators: The National Insulator Association (NIA) is an international organization of collectors and friends interested in electrical insulators, and other artifacts connected with the many industries associated with electrical power, telephone, telegraph, railroads and/or lightning protection devices.

Recreation, Collecting, Insulators - Rainbow Riders Trading Post. Photos of displays and shows, a few articles, and information about the out-of-print magazine.

insulators, glass insulators, railroads, and links to other related sites

Recreation, Collecting, Insulators - Insulator Gurls at Large. Follow the odyssey of two Canadian insulator collectors, who refuse to take themselves seriously.

Recreation, Collecting, Insulators - Clint's Place. Clint's online display of his porcelain signal-style insulator collection.

Hemingray.info is Christian Willis' Hemingray glass insulator web site.

Recreation, Collecting, Insulators - Porcelain Insulators. Collector, research expert, historian's site.

Site index of myinsulators.com -- Home of insulator collectors around the world.

Information on the hobby of collecting insulators and related collectibles. Contents include pictures of insulators, history of companies, patents, where to find insulators, manufacturing details, insulator terminology, books on the subject, and background on the hobby.

Glass Insulators were first produced in the 1850's for use with telegraph lines. As technology developed insulators were needed for telephone lines, electric power lines, and other applications. In the mid 1960's a few people began collecting these glass and porcelain insulators. Today there are over 2000 collectors, and insulator clubs, national shows, and good reference books are available.

Recreation, Collecting, Insulators, For Sale - Spec-Tru Glass Color Reference Tool. A color reference system combining the functions of colorimeter and spectrograph as a tool for identifying the colors in glass collections.