[TowerTalk] Towable towers available from the government

[Roger]

On 8/16/2013 2:29 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
> On 8/15/13 12:35 PM, Roger (K8RI) wrote:
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>>
>> When I was an instrument tech, excess "stuff" went into a pile and
>> they'd auction it off a couple times a year to employees only. Potential
>> liability became an issue some time back and I believe they finally quit
>> the excess auction.  but private corporation's liability and the
>> government's are quite different.
>>
>
> At JPL, employees are specifically prohibited from purchasing surplus 
> equipment or dumpster diving.  I think this is a generalized 
> government property restriction (I can see how it is too easy to abuse 
> the surplus declaration)

They held "supervised" clean-ups to prevent that, but if it's possible,  
someone will find a way to abuse the system.   Everything just went for 
a minimum of so many cents a pound and few wanted the larger gauges of 
wire. Naturally a couple of them were found buying the wire cheap, 
burning off the insulation and selling it as scrap copper for many times 
the price.  After that, wire went for a minimum of scrap copper price by 
weight.

As we had to sort out the stuff anyway, it took little time to put it in 
the dispose pile or sell pile.
Dumpster diving was also off limits.  If it went in the dumpster, it was 
gone.

73

Roger (K8RI)
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