Re: New coiler, also in search of 15kv and De-Potting tar filled NST's

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Drake,

If you don't have any luck searching your local neon shops, I can 
offer you a 60 ma transformer for between $50-$75. France and 
Allanson's that are mint get the most$, Newer Magnetek's are slightly 
less, and if the bushings have a chip (a cosmetic issue rather than 
performance ailment) then I adjust the price downaward accordingly.

Seeings that there has been a lot of talk with regards to dislodiging 
cores and coils from their tar filled homes, I thought I'd mention 
this; I have half a dozen or more  60 MA 12 and 15 kv NST's that have 
had one or more of the HV bushings sheared off. These are other wise 
great units, SO, if some ambitious soul wants to have a backyard tar 
melting festival, these would be PRIME candidates for either 
de-shunting and/or just paralell connection of multiples for greater current...

If interested in one or more, let me know. I also get great 
commercial shipping rates and am very flexible with regards to 
crating and shipping...

Jack"

   I've had good luck repairing transformers with "sheared off 
bushings" by just melting away the tar around the bushing until I 
could get access to the HV lead and and using a new bushing made of plastic.
I found a bunch of transformers lying in the ice plant beside a 
freeway on ramp once.  Apparently they had slid off the bed of a 
truck when the guy went around the corner too fast.  Saw one sticking 
out onto the curbing and returned and found a half dozen others, most 
of which had the bushing beaten up at one end but with enough of the 
bolt left that I could easily get at the HV lead for a new 
attachment.  One was in worse shape but I was able to melt the tar 
away from the opening in the case using a potent hot air gun.  Made 
new insulators from fiberglass rod because I happened to have a 
bunch, but I think almost any insulating material (including dry and 
wax-impregnated wood) would work just as bell.

Ed