[NJARC] 63/37 Solder at $8.50 a pound on ebay

[Pete Malvasi]

Hey. That's completely bogus.  It is in fact an authentic Kester autograph, likely last decade, but the roll is a Chinese repro distributed by n4fs after he bought 20,000 on ebay. (sorry mike :) )

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On Jul 26, 2010, at 3:26 PM, salb203 at aol.com wrote:

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> Here is a photo of the roll Samuel Kester signed for me.
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> http://www.tuberadios.com/temp/samuelkester.jpg
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> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:14 PM, <salb203 at aol.com> wrote:
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>> John,
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>> I visited the Solder Collector's Association many times in the past years
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>> everything I know and learned about solder was from
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>> that website. Unfortunately 2 months ago the founding father of that very
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>> informative website, Samuel Kester died a
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>> slow horrible death of lead poisoning when he was mixing a new formula of
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>> solder that would have revolutionized
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>> The greatest gift I received from Samuel Kester was a autographed roll of
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>> Kester
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>> Solder 3 weeks before
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>> his untimely death.
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>> Unfortunately his estate decided to shutdown the website. I offered to host
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>> From: John Ruccolo <jr6v6gt at yahoo.com>
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>> To: Chuck <cpaci1 at verizon.net>; Radiosjon at aol.com;
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>> tubeularelectronics at gmail.com; njarc at mailman.qth.net
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>> Perhaps you should join the Solder Collector's Association (SCA).
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