Re: [TCML] Re: Coil Died

[Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/20/13 12:02 PM, David Rieben wrote:
> Huh? Readily available? Although I may have personally found pole pigs a little
> out of reach back in the 80's and 90's, they certainly were just as accessible back
> then as now, if not more so.

What's changed is the internet, and lists like this one, so you can 
*find* places like T&R.   Back in the 80s, you had to know someone who 
knew how to get them.  I knew someone at my work who was willing to go 
out and saw down poles with transformers on them (likely killing himself 
in the process, or starting a brush fire, or worse).


T&R Electric was still readily selling their transformers
> to the general coiling community, now they won't.


And that's sort of a bad aspect to internets..


 And all of the MOTs that were
> gutted from microwave ovens were still "real transformer" iron core units, as op-
> posed to the SS inverters in newer model microwaves. BTW, iron cored NSTs
> are becoming increasingly scarce, due to the influx os SS drivers in the newer units.

And that will drive us TCers..

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