Re: Here I sit in total mysery being blown off by every source of NST

["Gregory R. Hunter" <ghunter-at-accucomm-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Where do you live?  Are you in North America?  I know what you mean about
acquiring neons.  For me it has been the most annoying thing about coiling.
 Have you considered giving up on neons and trying microwave oven
transformers (MOTs)?  They are a pain in the neck in some ways, but they
are cheap and available everywhere.  I improvised a 12kvdc, 4kVA power
supply based on two MOTs just so I would no longer be dependent on NSTs.
The MOT supply looks crude, and I suppose it is, but it sure coaxes some
nasty sparks from my 4" coil!  If you used all that time you're burning
chasing NSTs to build a MOT supply, you'd be sparking by now.

My $.02 worth,

Greg
www.angelfire-dot-com/ga3/tesla

At 07:59 AM 08/24/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Garry F." <garryfre-at-pacbell-dot-net> 
>
>I don't know what the problem with people in this county but trying to get an
>NST unless you want to pay through the nose for one is tantamount to
trying to
>get the president to set you up with his daughter!
>Typical scenario happens today. I call and call and call and finally, I
locate
>TWO NST's with this fellow in the next town from a second hand shop that
stays
>open till 8PM. This is unheard of. With my works schedule, I am at work when
>the businesses are open and they usually close WELL before I get off of work
>and I make arrangements with this fella. I've bought things from him
frequently
>and he has my phone number and tells me he has two possibly working NST's for
>me and he says he will be there tonight so I can pick them up and so I
take off
>early from work figuring I can make it up by staying till 8PM friday and I
rush
>home because I know I got to pick these things up and get this thing fixed
>because the only time I am going to get a chance to even glance at them for a
>week, is tonight. So I drive the hour commute back home and I drive in
only to
>find he's closed shop and has left without a note or a phone call or anything
>at all!! I got two hours I get to sit on my fanny waiting for him to return
>before it's 8PM and he's long gone.
> 
>Well, I got done leaving a rather explicit phone call telling him I'm totally
>misereable and asking him why he did this to me? I told him I frankly would
>rether die than have someone blow me off like this again.
> 
>I also had a change to get what I needed in Chico and I spent two of my days
>off playing footsie with some jerk that would make arrangements to meet me at
>his shop and I drove all the way down there and was supposed to call him
to get
>directions to his shop and he blows me off too. I get down there and I call
>this guy and I get an answering machine! I waited around all day for this
freak
>and after waiting 12 hours he finally answers the phone and says he had an
>emergency and then he protends he has another call and takes the phone number
>for the phone booth from me and then he doens't call back and I end up
waiting
>there another two hours.
> 
>I finally get ahold of him and he says tried to call but it didn't work so
like
>a fool, I give him a second chance to ruin another day as he makes
arrangements
>and swears he will be at his shop at 11pm and just as the sun rises, he's
gone
>and I wait all day again.
> 
>Well, after that, I don't put up with anyone running me through the ringer or
>leaving me high and dry like that. This fella that I ran up from work to see
>today got one chance, not a second chance to mess with me.
> 
>Although I didnt' cuss him out or seek to insult him, I fully expect he will
>tell me to get out if I showed up at his shop and I'm not going to give
him the
>chance.
> 
>I don't want to buy ebay, buyer beware, I've bought my fill of dead NST's and
>I'll not do it again.
> 
>I've been tentatively looking for a used NST for months and getting nowhere,
>and getting sign shops that say "We are not set up to sell to individuals", I
>finally broke down and paid a ton of cash for the NST I have right now
that is
>fried as a pancake. I don't want to go through this again. I'd rather take a
>hammer to my coil and destroy it to dust before I let these jerks that
live in
>this area treat me like I don't exist or make appointments to meet and never
>show up.
> 
>I want to buy an NST that works, I want to be able to get it in the
standard 6
>to 8 days UPS ground not save up for 6 months for a new one.
> 
>I've had hobbies before that fell under the blows of a hammer when it came to
>the point that I could see the frustration was ruining my life and making
me so
>misereable it wasn't worth it. Telsa coils are hard enough to make let alone
>trying to jerk an NST from thin air and wasting my time during weekends
running
>around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get parts and then not
>being able to devote enough time to it.
> 
>I realize I am rambling. Sorry, I just want to go to bed and have a good cry!
> 
>So, does anyone out there have a working NST I can purchase? I don't care
if it
>takes a week or two to get here, all I want is to know it's coming before
I die
>of old age.
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