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hawk-aggie said:

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Local pickup only

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What's local?

drumboy said:

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hawk-aggie said:

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Local pickup only

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What's local?

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Sorry - local is in College Station, but will ship at buyer's expense.

That transformer brand new is not much over $1,000.00.

As scrap - maybe $165.00
120 Lbs aluminum
280 lbs steel

So the $75.00 offer isn't really an insult. It assumes it is scrap and there would be work to put in a burn off oven to get varnish and insulation off... then scrap.

I'd let that go for any offer over $250.00 and be pretty happy.

I purchase these new from time to time and actually owned a company that manufactured them...and did designs.

BadAzzBohemian said:

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That transformer brand new is not much over $1,000.00.

As scrap - maybe $165.00
120 Lbs aluminum
280 lbs steel

So the $75.00 offer isn't really an insult. It assumes it is scrap and there would be work to put in a burn off oven to get varnish and insulation off... then scrap.

I'd let that go for any offer over $250.00 and be pretty happy.

I purchase these new from time to time and actually owned a company that manufactured them...and did designs.

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Thanks for the info. It was very helpful. My initial research on pricing was obviously way off. Since it's serviceable, I wouldn't want to scrap it, if I didn't have to.

You are welcome.

Lots of factors go into what it's current condition could be.

Transformers are quite robust equipment generally designed for a 40 year life. Depending on ambient temperature, exposure to sun and loading, heat is produced inside the enclosure. Every 10 degrees C it operates over 40 degrees C will generally result in a halving of life due to the insulating paper drying out and varnish breaking down... increasing the likelihood of a fault that will not be feasible to repair.

It could last a day or it could last 30 years. It is really difficult to know.

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