Vintage Glass Insulators

This design and style provides various advantages such as weight savings, improved contamination and flashover performance, and improved style versatility. When this could be seen as a damaging, this destroyed failure-mode effectively indicates the failed bell unlike the porcelain suspension bells that can appear intact even though a failure of the porcelain bell has occurred. This makes bell failures less complicated to find and though the ruptured glass retains adequate strength to hold the line, the crews can very easily locate the failure and schedule an acceptable time for replacement.