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Re: EMP cabinet/aquisitions philosophy


My car is EMP proof!  It gets tested unintentionally all the time.
What would you expect from an 84 Chevy? It didn't come from NRL either.
Barry

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|From: "tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com"-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
|To: Benson Barry; "Tesla-list-subscribers-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com"-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
|Subject: Re: EMP cabinet/aquisitions philosophy
|Date: Friday, September 27, 1996 4:24AM
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|>> Subject: Re: EMP cabinet
|>> >Subject: EMP cabinet
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|From rwstephens-at-ptbo.igs-dot-netThu Sep 26 21:56:04 1996
|Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:19:36 -0500
|From: "Robert W. Stephens" <rwstephens-at-ptbo.igs-dot-net>
|To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
|Subject: Re: EMP cabinet/aquisitions philosophy
|
|>>From hullr-at-whitlock-dot-comWed Sep 25 21:40:06 1996
|>Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 09:42:48 -0700
|>From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
|>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
|>Subject: Re: EMP cabinet
|
|>Tesla List wrote:
|>>
|>> >From rwstephens-at-ptbo.igs-dot-netTue Sep 24 22:25:40 1996
|>> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 14:14:09 -0500
|>> From: "Robert W. Stephens" <rwstephens-at-ptbo.igs-dot-net>
|>> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
|>> Subject: Re: EMP cabinet
|>>
|>> >>From hullr-at-whitlock-dot-comMon Sep 23 22:05:49 1996
|>> >Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 09:12:15 -0700
|>> >From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
|>> >To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
|>> >Subject: EMP cabinet
|>>
|>> >Hi Guys,
|>>
|>> <SNIP>
|>> >This weekend at the Va. Beach hamfest, I picked up a US government, Mil
|>> >spec. EMP proof standard 19" rack cabinet!  Another cast off from the
|>> >Naval Reserch Labs.
|>> <SNIP>
|>> >Richard Hull, TCBOR
|>>
|>> Geeeeeeze!  Some guys have all the luck.  : )
|>>
|>> rwstephens
|
|
|>Robert,
|>
|>I would say that right after the US, civilian directed, military waste
|>program, you Canadians have the best military surplus market in the
|>world.  Besides, I saw some of the old gear you used in the Radio
|>Astronomy quest of a few years back.  You are a kindred spirit
|>"scrounger".  This is the key to the doing!  Rather than whining and
|>wringing hands, we get out there and push and shove to scrounge up the
|>stuff we need to get the job done.  Information wise, the internet is a
|>great place to scrounge.
|>
|>Richard Hull, TCBOR
|
|Richard,
|
|Yeah, O.K. so I'm just jealous.  But you're absolutely right, rather
|than whining, guys like you and me go out there and 'find' what it is
|we need to get the job done.  My philosophy is that if you cannot
|afford the parts you need, think of somewhere where society is
|throwing them away, and go THERE.  Trouble I often run into though is
|that many of the goodies I need, scientific and electrical surplus,
|are often laiden with copper and aluminum.  You end up in a bidding
|war with scrap metal dealers who just want to melt the stuff down for
|the cash value of the metals. This makes me want to cry because it is
|such a waste of equipment that could instead be helping unfunded
|researchers like us discover the mysteries of the universe. This is
|my grass roots solution to 'Big labs, big money, big waste'!!!
|
|Since the kinda stuff we drag home is often heavy, it is still 'valuable' 
in
|scrap
|metal weight.  I had to pay $125.00 for a gutted aluminum box which was 
like
|a 19 inch rack cabinet for a microwave power oscillator I built recently,
|simply
|based on its weight times the value per pound of scrap aluminum.
|
|Occasionally we will 'discover' surplus that is perfect for our
|needs, astronomically expensive to buy new, and available cheap
|because it has less scrap value than the cost to tear it down.  This
|is how I obtained my two solid surface 60 foot parabolic dish
|antennas for my radioastronomy work in the Western Arctic for a
|dollar.  I had to relocate my lab and all wordly possessions 700 miles 
north
|from Edmonton, Alberta, to where for 10 months of the year the snow flies, 
and
|for 2 months the black flies : (  , in order to use them, because they were
|too
|expensive to relocate, but I took the big challenge and siezed the
|opportunity!
|
|In a similar vein, how many coilers out there are dedicated enough to that
|enormous coil project someday that if they located a perfect One
|Megawatt generator and pad step up transformer somewhere for a dollar
|on say the back side of the moon (figuratively speaking), would they 
relocate
|their life to go to it and use it in situ?
|
|This may be extreme, but the idea is sound.  Heck, Tesla moved all the
|way across the continent to Colorado Springs just for the offer of free
|electricity.
|Coilers have heart!  Stop whining and go take advantage of what this stupid
|world throws away.  Richard, you said the internet is a good place to
|scrounge...its also too easy a place to whine!
|
|As for me, I'm out looking now for that big generator and pad transformer,
|but just a 250 kilowatt to 1/2 Megawatt size.  One I can hope to move :).
|
|Start scrounging guys!
|
|rwstephens
|professional scrounger
|(YES! I've made it my career.)
|