1992 >> October  

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Patent Office

   by Elton Gish

   

NEVIN Y. SINDLINGER
SELF-TYING INSULATOR PATENT

Jack Snyder tracked down Mr. Sindlinger's family in his home town of Toledo, Ohio way back in 1974 after he saw a copy of the Sindlinger patent drawing on the cover of the July, 1974 issue of Crown Jewels. Jack interviewed Mr. ...                    [more]



   

Steve & Jack's Bogus Bowl Adventure

   by Jack Foote

   

Recently, my friend and fellow insulator collector Steve Marsh, contacted me regarding an unusual observation. While riding Amtrak in Northern California, he noticed what appeared to be bowls under insulators on a railroad pole line. The insulators appeared to be CD 154 Hemingray's. The bowls looked to be made of ...                    [more]



   

NEWS RELEASE!

   

   

Attention!
Insulator Collectors Worldwide!

I stumbled across a business opportunity that will set the hobby on its ear. However, I won't be quitting my day job...for awhile.

My business acquaintance (Ray Coon) is currently working on an intensified training program...so he can ...                    [more]



   

Foreign Insulators

   by Marilyn Albers

   

The Research Goes On...... And On

As the horizons of our hobby have reached further and further into other lands, we've found many new collector friends who share our common interest in insulators. As a result of our correspondence, we have traded our familiar North ...                    [more]



   

The Case of the Unidentified Insulator

   by Richard Wentzel

   

PREFACE: The following story details the case history of an actual insulator manufactured by Whitall Tatum Company. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent!!?

Actually, as a challenge to the reader's powers of deduction, drawings and catalogue number descriptions have been omitted from the ...                    [more]



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