RE: Hunting For Pigs...

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Original poster: "Terry Oxandale" <Toxandale@xxxxxxx>

My experience with Entergy (when I worked for them in Louisiana) was the
same in regards to liability. In the 80's I was able to buy any
transformer I wanted at $1 per rated KW (I know, it's still hard to
believe). At that time I was only doing really small coils and
consequently bought three 1.5 kva oil filled PTs and two .5 kva oil
filled PTs. Then they cut the source due to liability and I was left
high and dry (no pun intended). If I only had a crystal ball back then!

Terry


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Subject: Re: Hunting For Pigs...

Original poster: "David Rieben" <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Tyler,

I had to do a little "hunting" myself before I was able to
locate a reliable, renewable, and relatively affordable
source of pole pigs. I started by looking on the yellow pages of my
local phone directory under "transformers".
My local electrical utility is also the local water and na-
tural gas utility and is publically owned by the citizens of
the municipality which it serves. All that being said, my
local utility was not a good source for pole pig release
to the general public (that means me), because unlike ma-
ny privately owned utilities, they have their own transfor-
mer rebuld/repair shop. They have been quoted to say
that when they're ready to discard a pig, it has no servicable life
left in it. So I ended up searching through the yellow pages under
"transformers" and started calling. I was final-
ly lead to a utility transformer remanufacturer shop in a town
some 2 1/2 hours drive from me that was willing to sell them
on an individual basis w/out sweating the liability issue of it.
I can call them up with what I want with 48 hours notice and
go down and pick it up in my P/U truck two days later. I picked up a
15 kVA, 14,400/240 volt single phase unit that
wieghs in at 340 lbs this past April for $300.
A bit of advice, too. When you do finally locate a reliable source
of pigs, I'd be careful about who you lease that info to. You don't
want the wrong person to get one and then fry or seriously
injure himself and then start yelling "law suit". That would just about
guarantee that your supply would be stopped! That's what happened
with T&R Transformers a few years back.

David


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Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 9:34 AM
Subject: Hunting For Pigs...


>Original poster: Tyler Pauly <rpggod714@xxxxxxxxx>
>Hey, I'm looking into buying a pole pig, but don't
>know where to look.  I may have a backup plan - a
>local power company may donate one to my high school
>club - but I want to know the market.  I know Dr.
>Resonance was selling some... are there any left?
>Besides that, where do I go for one of these? A
>junkyard?  I probably won't buy one immediately, but
>if there is a deal I'll go for it. What's the price
>range?
>                    Thanks for the help,
>                         Tyler
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