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From: georgenann@aol.com<br>
To: pshevlin@ptlp.com<br>
Sent: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 3:19 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Toluene<br>
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<div><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></FONT>Hi Pat,</div>
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<div>You bring back memories. In 73 after our "Big" strike during which CBS Engineering spent lots of time at the transmitter at "Empire" and not finding any cause for the bum signal into New Jersey (Too much RF all over the place), one night I took the custodian's broom handle and the florescent bulb from the boss's desk lamp and went up on the antenna and found one dipole dead, looking West. Found busted strap on it. I called manager, he had rigger up the next day. I got chewed out because how did I expect "Fred" to sweep the floors and "Give me my bulb back!".</div>
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<div>George Keller<br>
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From: Pat Shevlin <<A href="mailto:pshevlin@ptlp.com">pshevlin@ptlp.com</A>><br>
To: Quad List <<A href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com</A>><br>
Sent: Fri, Jan 15, 2010 6:43 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Toluene<br>
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<div id=AOLMsgPart_0_ddbd523c-5e6f-40f6-af0d-4365e125bb4e style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>That's why I left the Antenna business back in the late 70s. At night I
use to hold the end of a florescent light bulb in my hand while climbing
the tower to locate a defective choke joint in the waveguide that was
causing my swr to go sky-high raising the body current temperature of the
klystron. The bulb would fire when I reached the defective waveguide
joint. For some reason it use to always be the highest joint up the
tower.....
Pat
> In a message dated 1/15/2010 2:17:08 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> <A href="mailto:cwreti@gmail.com">cwreti@gmail.com</A> writes:
>
>> We smart-a** kid engineers at Wayne State Univ. TV in Detroit made that
>> same fun discovery, plus, taking the gooey gelled cup outside and
>> lighting
>> it made a small, intense fire, with thick black smoke, probably
>> something
>> like napalm. I hope that the daily handling of xylene way back then did
>> not
>> initiate some dormant process that lies in wait to get me!
>>
>>
>> Chuck Reti
>> WV8A
>> Detroit MI
>>
>> On Jan 15, 2010, at Jan 15 3:05 PM, C. Park Seward wrote:
>>
>> >> Also, don't make the mistake I made once. I poured a little in a
>>> plastic cup. It didn't take long for it to melt the bottom of the cup!
>>> Handy if
>>> you want a tube and not a cup
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> =
>>
>>
>
> In regard to the use of Zylene and Ampex (or similar) types of head
> cleaner, I have heard a disturbing amount of stories here (in LA) recently
> about
> degenerative illnesses and even premature deaths that somehow seem
> strangely
> coincidental when one considers that those individuals were tape room
> employees of the 50's through 80's, using head cleaner several times a
> day. I don't
> believe that there is any scientific study in these exact geographical
> locations, but someone might someday take a close look at the employee
> records
> and their later years in life to draw any sort of conclusions. I remember
> back in the 70's of specific warnings from co-workers about the red cans
> of
> Ampex head cleaner.
>
> I think the same sort of statistical study could be applied (if not
> already) to Mt. Wilson engineers who were bombarded daily with RF from
> that highly
> congested area. The stories I've heard are not pretty.
>
> David Crosthwait
>
> DC Video
> Archived Media Transfer & Re-mastering Services
> <A href="http://www.dcvideo.com/" target=_blank>WWW.DCVIDEO.COM</A>
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