Re: St.Louis Coilers - Looking for transformers

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Original poster: "The Krohns" <2halice@xxxxxxx>

Hey Jim,

Might I suggest that you grab the yellowpages and get the addresses of the
neon sign companies in your area.  Swing in and visit them and see if you
can sweet-talk them into letting you scrap-out their scrap yard.    You see,
neon sign companies take down almost as many signs as they put up.  Those
old signs sit in their scrap yard until they get an employee to disassemble
them for recycling.  It's no skin off their noses if you take a few NSTs out
of their old signs.  In fact, the old non-GFI type NSTs are the ones that
work best for coils.  Here's a tip; if you want the sign companies to take
your request seriously, wear a pair of steel-toed boots, or they won't let
you enter their yard because of OSHA regulations.

I have a pile of NSTs if you would like to contact me off list.  However,
the shipping cost on these things are pretty high.

Cordially, Hal in Tucson


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Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 11:09 PM
Subject: RE: St.Louis Coilers - Looking for transformers


> Original poster: "Michael Strube" <mjstrube@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> Mike here, in Glendale MO (suburb of St. Louis).  Can't help with the
> transformers, but you might think about just building one from MOTs. I
went
> that route when I fried an NST shortly after finishing my coil.  Details
> here:
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~mjstrube/tesla.html
>
>
> I'll probably have my coil set up and running again in mid-March.  If
you're
> close, feel free to come by and see it.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:18 PM
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: St.Louis Coilers - Looking for transformers
>
> Original poster: "Campbell, James C." <campbelljc@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Anyone in the St.Louis/Lake of the Ozarks area have any transformers
> they want to get rid of?  I am new to the list, and would also be
> interested in meeting up with anyone that is in to
> coiling/high-voltage experimentation in the area.     Thanks in advance!
> Jim
>
>
>