Re: Pole Pigs from power company?

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Original poster: "Crow Leader" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net> 

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Subject: RE: Pole Pigs from power company?


 > Original poster: "BrianB" <brianb-at-antelecom-dot-net>
 >
 > Ken,
 >
 > T&R is a good company which does a lot of business. For a number of
 > years they have provided good service to the commercial as well as the
 > hobbyist coilers (until someone threatened them and lost us all another
 > good resource).

Enron did lots of business too.

 > T&R would go out of their way to try and reduce shipping costs to the
 > individual (that meeting the truck you presented as a bad thing was one
 > way they tried to help reduce our costs). BTW-They would have been glad
 > to ship it to your dock or a trucking depot for the regular rates if you
 > had only asked.

They weren't. Tried that.

 > Please don't bad mouth a company when you only have speculation,
 > especially those companies which are willing to deal with us (smile) and
 > have provided great service in the past.

Why have you turned to "secret suppliers" then?


 > Off my soapbox and back to making arcs...
 >
 > Brian B.
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
 > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 6:56 AM
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: Re: Pole Pigs from power company?
 >
 > Original poster: "Crow Leader" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>
 >
 > I got a quote from T&R some time ago. The best description of age or
 > condition was "they look great" or something silly like that when I kept
 > asking. It all seemed shifty. I'm not sure how the logistics of meeting
 > up
 > with a truck on the highway to pickup the transformer works either. I
 > wansn't too upset to take my business elsewhere in the end.
 >
 > KEN
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 11:48 PM
 > Subject: RE: Pole Pigs from power company?
 >
 >
 >   > Original poster: "Godfrey Loudner" <ggreen-at-gwtc-dot-net>
 >   >
 >   > T&R must be inconsistence in their policy. I surely recall a post
 >   > awhile back where a big tesla coil company reported that they were
 >   > denied service by T&R, even though they had good insurance. Maybe
 >   > others only have to incorporate, even with a cash balance of $1,
 >   > to qualify as a company to get service from T&R.
 >   >
 >   > Godfrey Loudner
 >   >
 >   >  >T&R Electric is out of the
 >   >  >question for most now due to a recent liability incident.  Luckily
 > for
 > me,
 >   > I
 >   >  >can still order through
 >   >  >them and have them delivered to my company.
 >   >
 >   >
 >   >
 >
 >
 >