Re: Ebay Pole Pigs

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Original poster: DRIEBEN-at-midsouth.rr-dot-com 

Kevin,

I believe someone? said that they were T&R pigs. I'm not sure how this guy
is getting them but he's been advertising these for about a year and a
half now. It seems strange that just around the time that T&R supposedly
stopped selling pole pigs to amature coilers is about the same time frame
that this guy starts selling these pigs. Go figure. At first, he was sel-
ling all of them with free shipping but now you have to be located within
a pretty limited geographical area to qualify for that benefit. Anyway, he
does have a 100% + feedback rating with over 200 hits, so he seems to be
legit. Of course, all of his other items of sale is foreign music CDs.
Don't know how much he really knows about pole pigs and coiling.?

BTW, I just recently obtained a 15 kVA, 14,400/120-240 volts pole
pig from a rebuild shop for $300. I had to drive nearly 300 miles round
trip, but that's a somewhat better price that this guy's and the only
"shipping' that I had to pay was a tank of gas for my truck (which is get-
ting to be a substantial cost now w/ gas pushing close to $2 a gallon)
With a little calling around, one can probably find a somewhat more local
source of pigs and probably at a decent price.

David Rieben


----- Original Message -----
From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Saturday, April 17, 2004 11:05 pm
Subject: Ebay Pole Pigs

 > Original poster: "makinglightning comcast"
 > <makinglightning-at-comcast-dot-net>
 >
 >
 > Does anyone know the story behind these pole pigs? Ebay item number
 > 3809089684
 >
 > http://cgi.ebay-dot-com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4665&item=3809089684&;
 > rd=1
 >
 > They sure look like T&R xfmrs and have a similar price structure.
 >
 > I have gotten 2 T&R pigs in the past, a 5KW 14.4KV and a 15KW
 > 19.8KV, and
 > the shipping was also included in my prices. I thought it was
 > cheap compared
 > to neon xfmrs that don't have much power, and their protection
 > networks that
 > don't work real good.
 > I still don't think neon xfmrs are built good enough for tesla work.
 >
 > A big truck pulled up to my house and it had many pigs on it of
 > all sizes
 > including REAL big ones.
 > I got my 5 KW a year or so ago, and the 15 KW one 10years ago.
 > This all was before I saw posts on how people can not get T&R pigs.
 >
 > Just curious,
 > Kevin
 >
 >
 >