Re: New Variac (and lots of ?'s)

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Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>

buying junk has nothing to do with ebay itself- it just a place for people
to buy and sell a variety of interesting items. Think of it as on online
hamfest. If you are not sure of what you are buying, don't buy it.

KEN
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Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: New Variac (and lots of ?'s)


> Original poster: "Peter Komen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<pkomen-at-zianet-dot-com>
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> eBay is not always reliable.  I got a used variac quite cheap.
> Unfortunately the middle of the windings are all loose where the wiper
> contacts them.  The thing was motor driven and that may explain the excess
> wear.  Be careful with eBay too.
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> OTOH, for $190, I agree with Dan.
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> Regards,
>
> Pete Komen
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> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 8:19 AM
> Subject: RE: New Variac (and lots of ?'s)
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> > Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
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> > Hate to say it, but you got ripped off.  You should have tried ebay.  I
> just
> > bought (2) 240VAC, 40A variacs off the site in the past two weeks for
only
> > $30.00 each. Plus for $190 i would expect at least a variac in good
> > condition in which i didn't have to make any changes to.
> >
> > Dan
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