Re: Surplus Power Equipment?

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

At 04:14 PM 9/6/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Marry Krutsch by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <u236-at-earthlink-dot-net>
>
>Hi All,
>
>         I was thinking of buying a distribution xfmr from Dr. Resonance, but
>then I started looking into/worrying about the shipping complications
>:-(.  Plus, it looks like it's gonna cost more than $300 to ship an $85
>pig :-0.  The logistics of the situation may kill it for me.
>
>         Anyway, my dad told me about a SoCal Edison scrap/surplus yard
>somewhere around Rosemead (for all you SoCal coilers).  Is this for
>real???  If not, are there any other places like it in the area?

SCE headquarters in in Rosmead, but I don't think their salvage yard is 
there.  The DWP has their salvage yard next to the power plant in Sun Valley.



>         I've hounded the power company here in Burbank, and can't get anyone
>who even knows what I'm talking about, save one.  I've never been able
>to speak to the people who work directly with the old equipment.  How
>much is it to buy a 10 kVA pig from Solomon Corp.?

You won't get anything scrap/surplus from the utilities that might have 
ever had PCBs in it, and pole transformers fall in that category.  All the 
SoCal utilities I've talked to have exclusive deals with a recycling 
company that can handle the possible HazMat (and have financial 
responsibility).  They don't even like having them sit around, so they have 
the contractor pick them up at the job site when they pull them off the 
pole. One of the guys at Edison, said that if you store them for any length 
of time, you have to have containment barriers (in case of a leak), and 
that the risk of creating an instant superfund site was too much.

A very small utility out in the desert or hills might be a 
possibility.  They don't have pockets that are as deep as a DWP or SCE, so 
they might conceive of themselves as less a target for a contamination lawsuit.