Re: 50 Variacs 7.8 KW each FOR SALE

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Original poster: gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 


>>where did you get all of the variacs from??  I did notice that the 
original pix were pretty much
>>coated with sediment... :)
>>Scot D
>

I am a pack rat.  Anytime I come across a good deal I buy it.  The 
variacs have been stored in a small wooden building for 20 
years.  Lots of dust, spiders, mud dobbers, wasps, etc.   Several 
years ago I cleaned up one of these variacs, stripped off all the 
stuff I didn't want, sprayed it with the garden hose, blew the water 
off with the air compressor hose, let it dry for a few days, oiled 
all the moving parts, it worked fine.  These variacs came from local 
factories.  New technology made the variacs obsolute so the factories 
put them in the ware house with lots of other stuff.  After many 
years of collecting dust in the warehouse the factory finally decide 
to sell them.   I buy what I can afford and what I have room to 
keep.  I have passed up a lot of good stuff just because I don't have 
a place to keep it.  If I had a 100 ft by 200 ft building I could 
have filled it full many years ago.  Most of the factories in town 
have closed and moved over sea I could have bought enough stuff to 
cover 2 foot ball fields.  The Satarn car factory closed I went there 
about 2 months ago the building is probably 1/4 mile long FULL of all 
types of stuff, robots, programmable controllers, machines, 
equipment, and it is all for sale at scrap yard price 40 cents a 
pound.  I bought about 30 programmable controllers for $1.00 each I 
programmed one to turn lights on and off in the house using motion 
sensors, pressure switches under the carpet and timers, just walk 
into a room and the lights come on automatic, when you leave the room 
the lights go off automatic.  When I go on vacation I can make all 
the lights, TV, etc. in the house go on and off at random it makes it 
look like someone is at home.

I once had about 50 high energy storage capacitors that weighed about 
100 lbs. each.  They were rated 5000 volts 18,000. amps, 210 MFD, 
caster oil filled.  I sold 3 of the capacitors to someone on the TC 
forum many years ago I am guessing it was 15 years ago just about a 
year after Chip started this TC forum.  I still have 3 of the 
capacitors.  I did not have a place to keep all the caps so I threw 
them all in the trash.   The 3 caps that I have I don't use very 
often.  Some times I charge them up, then discharge them through a 
piece of 8 foot long 1/8 inch steel wire.  The wire exploded, 
vaporizes into smoke, produces a huge flash of light and it sounds 
like someone shot a high powered rifle, BOOB.  3 caps in parallel 
54,000. amps at 5000 volts makes a really good BOOB, its a lot of fun 
on the 4th of July.   If anyone is interested in the cap bank I might 
sell it too, my work shop is just too full of stuff I don't really 
want or need any more.  I have 3 other cap banks one has 30 caps in 
parallel smaller caps.  I have primary coils, secondary coil, PVC 
pipe, enamel coated copper wire in 100 lbs rolls, 15 model airplane, 
2 racing go cart, 5 racing engines, lots of parts, model rockets, 18 
bicycles, toroids, spheres, radio TV transmitter tubes, and lots more.

Gary Weaver