Zareba® 5 Inch Snap-On Reversed Insulators

I have used these for years. The ones I bought early on worked well and were made from a sturdy but flexible material allowing easy installation without breaking them. However, within the last two years something changed, they are now a hard brittle plastic. About 25% break while trying to install them and another 50% break within the first few months after installation.

I think they changed their formula because I bought these in 2019 and they were junk. The company sent me replacements and they work! We have 15 acres of fencing that burned in the Paradise Ca fire so we had to replace most of the insulators after they were melted. I am so happy to have them work now. They no longer snap when I put them on the post. Thank you Zareba!

I bought a ton of the yellow ones to run electric fence along a quarter mile of existing barbed wire. These are so flimsy, they just are not up to the task. They won't even stay on the posts well. I needed them so I used them, but in hindsight I should have sent them all back. Avoid these, they are junk. They are nothing like the old ones that held up well and lasted forever.

Broke 4 of the first 5 putting them on before I figured out that you can CAREFULLY use a large flat bladed screwdriver to pry them around the 'T' of the post - just pry the insulator end the bare minimum needed and push it and the screwdriver over the edge of the 'T'. Put the remaining 20 on with no problem along with most of another bag. They fit better on new posts than they do on old ones. Some of the old ones are thicker and some have slightly longer 'T's. I did get them on all of the posts eventually.

Waste of time and money. Dont fit without breaking.

as many people are saying, they break as you try to put them on. useless.

I had trouble breaking em, feedstore guy said nobody else has that problem. Oh well. I solved it by putting a bagful of insulators in a kitty litter bucket full of hot water. They float and they all but one went on. With the hinged lid snapped on, the bucket rolled along with me on my hand truck. In hot weather you might not need the hot water. So far as I see, the tab has to swing open to about 120• angle which is when they break. Helps a lot to shoehorn them open with a very slender blade like a butter knife or my ground-down slot tip screwdriver. If I'm not doing it right, somebody please tell me.

American Farm Works...Made in China. Our of a bag of 25, I broke 21. 4 insulators are on my tposts. Inly 2 are on all the way. Awful product. Save your money and sont but them

They break as soon as you get them in a bind putting them on a T post.

These are a waste of money! They break trying to put on the t post.