RE: shipping things like NSTs RE: Anyone have a transformer I can buy

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Original poster: "Dave Halliday" <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Actually, I have a full shop and lots of wood scraps so building the box
is no big deal.

I was initially looking at foam inserts and such and came to the
realization that it would be faster for me to simply bolt the xformer to
a hunk of 2X wood and then build a box around it with OSB than it would
be for me to use a standard sized cardboard box and fiddle with inserts.


I have about 50 xformers that will be going on the market soon and I
wanted to get something that could be built quickly.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 12:30 PM
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: shipping things like NSTs RE: Anyone have a
> transformer I can buy
>
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> Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> At 07:16 AM 4/8/2006, Tesla list wrote:
> >Original poster: "Dave Halliday" <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >Where are you located?
> >
> >I am still testing a bunch of Neon Sign transformers that I got at
> >auction and have a number of used 12KV 30mA units.
> >
> >Shipping will be a bit expensive as I am building a wood box for each
> >unit to protect the ceramic bushings.
>
> Wood boxes are nice, but probably overkill..
>
> The commercial units get shipped in cardboard boxes with sytrofoam
> type inserts.
> They put a short cardboard tube over the insulator to keep it from
> getting dinged.
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> Mostly, it's a matter of using enough rigid packing material around
> the transformer and a big enough box, so that if the box does get
> dropped/bashed/etc., the transformer survives.  The packing material
> needs to be rigid enough to hold position too.  No just dumping the
> NST into a big box of pellets.
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> The commercial shipping uses about 2-3" total space, but they get to
> use nice customized foam inserts.
>
> Likewise, they ship lab test equipment (scopes, spectrum analyzers,
> etc.) using that expanding foam in a plastic bag, with 3-6" of space
> between equipment and box wall.
>
> Wrapping it in many, many layers of bubble wrap "might" work, but
> you'd really have to jam it in.
>
> There's also the old standby of double boxing.  use something like
> bubble wrap around the NST and jam it tightly into the inside box,
> then put 3" of almost anything around that to put it into the outside
> box.  Crumpled newspaper, foam pellets, etc., would all work.
>
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> >I also ran into a bunch of Microwave Oven transformers from
> another deal
> >-- these will be around $30 each shipping in the USA included.
> >
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> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 10:20 PM
> > > To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Anyone have a transformer I can buy
> > >
> > >
> > > Original poster: "Kyle Sandbornhesium"
> > > <sandbornenterprises@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Hey I need a 12kv transformer would I be able to purchase
> one through
> > > you guys or somwhere off the internet for $75 or less.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Kyle
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