[Amps] Fw: Dummy Load "Oil"

[Jim W7RY]

> Pete
> I have sent several emails about the amplifier items you have in Mc 
> Minville.... You have not answered.... Did you get them?
>
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> 73
> Jim W7RY
>
> NE of Portland
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pete Lancashire" <pete at petelancashire.com>
> To: <amps at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Dummy Load "Oil"
>
>
>>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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