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Re: neon plunder!



Subject: 
           Re: neon plunder!
      Date: 
           Sat, 05 Apr 1997 22:09:49 -0800
      From: 
           Roderick Maxwell <major-at-vicksburg-dot-com>
        To: 
           Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
References: 
           1


Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Subject:
>         Re: neon plunder!
>   Date:
>         Fri, 4 Apr 1997 16:17:37 -0500
>   From:
>         "Robert W. Stephens" <rwstephens-at-headwaters-dot-com>
>     To:
>         Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> 
> > Date:          Wed, 02 Apr 1997 23:26:44 -0600
> > To:            tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> > Subject:       neon plunder!
> > From:          Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> 
> > Subject:
> >            neon plunder!
> >       Date:
> >            Wed, 02 Apr 1997 21:42:11 -0800
> >       From:
> >            Roderick Maxwell <major-at-vicksburg-dot-com>
> >         To:
> >            tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > References:
> >            1
> >
> >
> > I have to admit that I got jeleous of Nathan Bonsal when he said he was
> >  rebuilding 7 neons. So I went to Jackson today which is about 80 miles
> >  from where I live. The nearest town is vicksburg which is 30 miles
> >  away(I,m a hick I live in the country). Vicksburg has only one small
> >  neon shop, and I already paid him a visit, that is how I got the other
> > 4
> >  transformers. I found another much larger shop in Jackson, one of
> >  several others. I asked the man in charge could I have some neon
> >  transformers for a science project, and I told him I wanted only the
> > bad
> >  ones. He looked sort of puzzled for a moment then he asked me how many
> > I
> >  wanted. I told him how many you got? Well I've got a whole pile of them
> >  out back and I'll charge you a dollar each. I told him okay. So one of
> >  the other men that works in the back showed me a pile about three foot
> >  high! He tells me if the boss don't see ya take as many as you want! So
> >  I grabbed about 23 total. I could have gotten more but the minivans
> >  springs were sitting kind of low! Heres what I grabbed.
> >
> >  13  MAGNATEK    15,000    30ma
> >
> >  4   FRANCEFORMER  15,000  30ma
> >
> >  1   MAGNATEK     15,000   60ma
> >
> >  1   JEFFERSON ELECTRIC 15,0000  30ma
> >
> >  1  TRANSCO  12,000  30ma
> >
> >  3   ?????   12,000  60ma
> >
> >    The last 3 transformers I can't identify but they have two large
> > glass
> >  socketed holes with springs inside on one end to connect to the neon
> >  tubing.
> >
> >     And get this, he said come back and get some more if you want.(
> > cross
> >  my heart and hope to die)!
> >
> >                               Frankensteins Helper
> >                                        Max
> >
> >
> Congratulations Max,
> 
> That is a very good price for scrap transformers.  You do have your
> work cut out for you now though.
> 
> Cheers,
> rwstephens


  Yes I certainly do! I have already spent $30 more on special rubber
gloves to protect my hands from gasoline. I estimate it will probably be
next fall before I'm finished cleaning up, and reassembling all of them. 



                                   Frankensteins Helper
                                          Max