Re: neon plunder!

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Subject: Re: neon plunder!
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 22:36:59 -0600
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Subject: 
        Re: neon plunder!
  Date: 
        Fri, 4 Apr 1997 16:17:37 -0500
  From: 
        "Robert W. Stephens" <rwstephens-at-headwaters-dot-com>
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> 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