[Boatanchors] Interesting place to find HV and amp parts . . .

[Bob Hardie- W5UQ]

I used to work and maintain one of those transmitters... I mean seam 
sealers. 

A "Tent and Awning" company in Tulsa asked me to come out and look at 
their splicer.  I was saying, "what????"   Well, I was a consulting 
engineer and decided to go look.  This was in the 80's.  When I got 
there I found basically an AM transmitter that caused enough RF in the 
BIG BAR that was several feet long, that it melted the plastic, or 
whatever materials, together.  I fixed the transmitter and it worked. 
I have to admit that this was, at first thought, strange.  But it turned 
out to be "simple"..... A transmitter to splice material together???? oh 
well.......

Live and learn...
Bob  W5UQ

david freeman wrote:
> My sister and her husband own and tent/awning shop. They use a number of RF seemers to melt the vinyl canvas together. The two pieces of vinyl are smashed between two aluminum bars about 18" long. The bars serve as part of the capacitance in the tank circuit (I think). I look at their machinery and see some pretty heavy duty parts that would easily make a multi-kW rig.
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> Dave, WW8S
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>> Subject: [Boatanchors] Interesting place to find HV and amp parts . . .
>> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:16:50 -0500
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>> Strange place to find these parts:
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>> http://www.landlmachinery.com/Parts.html
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>> HTH es 73 de Mark KX8XX
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