[Amps] pickin' out pole pigs

[John Lyles]

Wow, what a difference 40 years makes. I imagine now that the legal department would have some words to say, and prevent such 'sensible' recycling due to liabilty, you might kill yourself or spill oil on the road or something.

John 
K5PRO 
> Back around 1965, I went to the L.A. Dept. of Water and Power surplus  
> yard with some friends and we bought a bunch of surplus pole pigs.   
> The oil (PCB?) had been removed and they were selling them for the  
> scrap value, which was based on the copper price.  I think I paid  
> something like $10-15 for a 3 kVA transformer.  W6OSU (later W6ET,  
> SK) got a 5 kVA model for an amp he was building with a pair of  
> 4-1000s.  One non-ham picked one up to rewind to make an arc welder.   
> They let us leave the cases behind.
> 
> Bob, N7XY
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