[Amps] Dummy Load "Oil"

[Pete Lancashire]

I the days when I was something like 15 I also needed a gallon of
xmfr oil for my home made version of the Heathkit Cantenna.
Maybe it was growing up in an era of barter or close to
a big city of Philly, or easier times I don't know.

There was a PGE yard within a bicycle distance I can no longer
remember, so one summer day I and my empty gallon paint can
peddled up to, and into the yard and I asked the first person
I came to. He mumbled something and pointed to someone near a
shed, I peddled over and next thing I knew I had about 5 quarts
of xfmr oil, the 5th quart covered the can, my hand holding it
and drained into the gravel under the valve. He didnt seem in
too much of a hurry to shut the valve off, handed me a rag then
sent me on my way home.

Many years later that yard became a EPA site due to the large
concentration of PCB laced oil under it ...

Maybe harder now days with bean counters, and you a potential
terrorist building a bomb but it would still be worth the try.

-pete

> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Most electric company service centers will just give you a gallon of
>> transformer oil.  They stock it by the 55 gallon drums and the paperwork
>> to
>> sell you a gallon costs considerably more than what a gallon of
>> transformer
>> oil costs them.
>
>
> Sounds like a good opportunity for a "coffee and donuts" or "six pack of
> beer" barter system, depending on whether you head out in the morning or
> near the end of the day ;-)
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