[Boatanchors] Fw: Heathkit HO-10 & HO-13 Power Transformer iscurrently being produced

[Rob Atkinson]

Hi Jim,

I don't know if these folks repair or rewind transformers but I've
seen their products and they are perfectly fine for our purposes.
Might be worth a call.

http://www.epd-inc.com/
also heyboer in Michigan
https://www.heyboertransformers.com/
73
Rob
K5UJ

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:01 PM <w5jo at brightok.net> wrote:
>
>
> Due to the possibility of Mark not being able to restart Transformer
> Rewinding, I started looking around for someone else who could fill the void
> just in case.  In years past electric motor shops would rewind transformers
> and they were common in almost every town over 4,000 people.  Most of them
> are now closed but a few still are around.  I searched for that kind of
> business in this area after a couple of phone calls found a place in
> Oklahoma City that will do any transformer you have.
>
> However, its major business is the big stuff.  They do work for the FAA,
> Oklahoma Gas and Electric and numerous electric Coops in this part of the
> world.  It is an individual owned business and I asked him if they could
> determine the specs from a diagram or impedance figures to which he said his
> last employee who could retired recently at 84.  However, they would take a
> transformer and disassemble it, count the turns and taps then reconstruct
> it,  Needless to say that is an expensive process in time and material.
>
> He said he has performed that service recently but it cost quite a bit and
> would still take in work but the price would be quote only.  So if we loose
> the TRS replacement, it will be a bad deal.  Hammond will furnish a
> transformer for our special needs, but it will be expensive too as we have
> seen.  He was a real nice guy and invited me to visit the next time I am in
> OKC.  I wish I could convince him of the possibility of having at least one
> employee doing this kind of work and that of other commercial entities.  I
> would bet he could support at least one, if not two or three employees as
> Peter Dahl did.
>
> I am crying in my beer.  I know a ham who needs a power transformer for the
> modulator deck of a Globe King 400.  He has been waiting for the new TRS and
> he, like me, sure hopes it comes on line soon.
>
> Jim
> W5JO