[GreenKeys] Incredible . . .

[wa2hwj at att.net]

Nassau Smelting was on Staten Island, not Long Island.
In my Ma Bell days, the joke was that all old Western
Electric equipment (including Teletypes) met their
demise at Nassau Smelting. 
Staten Island (or, as radio guys call it "Static Island")
is the site of the Fresh Kills Landfill, the world's largest
dump. That's where the debris from 9/11 was sent.

Jack WA2HWJ



-------------- Original message from 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.) 
> 
> 
> - Roy Morgan, K1LKY since 1959 - Keep 'em Glowing! 
> 7130 Panorama Drive, Derwood MD 20855 
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> 
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