[GreenKeys] Incredible . . .

[Roy Morgan]

At 09:21 PM 10/4/2004, Tom Jennings wrote:
> > This is it folks, after the existing supply of Nassau solder
> > is exhausted, there is NO more, As you can see in the following
> > picture, as of 1 yr ago, the plant lies in ruin!
>
>Well, that's good marketing!

Greenkeyers,

Do we need to stand up a Board of Inquiry?
The charge would be to investigate these questions:

1) What was the WE special specification, anyway?

2) What on earth might make the stuff so desirable?

3) Is the plant location on  Long Island now on the EPA's Superfund Cleanup 
list?

4) Is there any reason to launch a search and recover mission to the long 
Island site in case any scraps of this precious solder might remain in the 
rubble?

5) How soon might it come to pass that normal lead-bearing solder is 
outlawed, and we have to rely on stashed supplies of old stock?  (Remember 
"The Freon Experience".)

>The bidding was mainly two people, with a poacher at the last minute.
>Very strange indeed.

To quote (freely) a famous Dramatis Personae:

"There's something rotten in the state of Ebay"  err.. "...Denmark."

Roy
Whose security advisors warn him to
neither confirm nor deny the presence
of any solder or freon cannisters on
his property.

PS:  Anyone having a soldering iron meant to run on 40 volts should care 
for it well - the solder residue may be most valuable.  (They were used in 
the switching plants where 40 volt battery power was most everywhere.)


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