Samuel Oakman and Boston Insulator Production

(Part II, Part I in September, 1988)

All American insulators have very distinctive threads: two rectangular outlines appear on opposite sides of the pinhole and there are no threads in the top quarter of the pinhole. Occasionally there will be a dot visible above the ...                    [more]

From The Editor's Desk

WHAT MAKES A GOOD HOBBY?

What is a good hobby? It must be something you like, not something somebody else suggests you ought to like. What may be an excellent hobby for one person may be wrong for somebody else. It must be worth doing. Mere wasting of time by ...                    [more]

Foreign Insulators

Come climb aboard my magic carpet for a trip to the USSR, compliments of Don Fiene of Knoxville, Tennessee, who sent in the following account of his most recent adventure.

SOVIET INSULATOR REPORT, 1988
by Don Fiene

The spirit of GLASNOST was stronger in 1988 in the Soviet Union than in any ...                    [more]