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Re: Questions



On Sun, 5 May 1996, Tesla List wrote:

> Dry transformers in about 1 kVA and larger will yield approximately 
> 15 to 20% of their weight in copper.  I hope you talked to this fellow to 
> get his phone number, maybe he'd sell you one.  You could offer him 
> the copper value and point out that you'd be saving him the recovery 
> trouble.

Since the items in question were "small" commercial electric company 
current transformers (4000:5 I think, about 15-20lb each), I wasn't real 
worried.  They would have been fun to have, but I really didn't need 
them.  Now if they had been potential or distribution transformers, I 
flat out would have outbid him without a second thought since they would 
definitely have had a lot more than scrap value to me and the Tesla 
community at large.

> Sorry that this test isn't the high tech scientific one expected, but 
> the hammer IS after all a commonly used fine tuning instrument
> in many fields of high technology!

That works for me just fine...I generally feel like getting out my precision 
16 oz adjusting tool to use on my computer at work when it's sitting there 
doing whatever stupid thing I tell it to, rather than what I really want 
it to do  ;-)

Steven Roys