[QuadList] Fwd: Toluene

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-----Original Message-----
From: georgenann at aol.com
To: pshevlin at ptlp.com
Sent: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 3:19 pm
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Toluene


Hi Pat,
 
You bring back memories.  In 73 after our "Big" strike during which CBS Engineering spent lots of time at the transmitter at "Empire" and not finding any cause for the bum signal into New Jersey (Too much RF all over the place), one night I took the custodian's broom handle and the florescent bulb from the boss's desk lamp and went up on the antenna and found one dipole dead, looking West.  Found busted strap on it.  I called manager, he had rigger up the next day.  I got chewed out because how did I expect "Fred" to sweep the floors and "Give me my bulb back!".
 
73,
 
George Keller





-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Shevlin <pshevlin at ptlp.com>
To: Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
Sent: Fri, Jan 15, 2010 6:43 pm
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Toluene


That's why I left the Antenna business back in the late 70s.  At night I
se to hold the end of a florescent light bulb in my hand while climbing
he tower to locate a defective choke joint in the waveguide that was
ausing my swr to go sky-high raising the body current temperature of the
lystron.  The bulb would fire when I reached the defective waveguide
oint.  For some reason it use to always be the highest joint up the
ower.....
Pat


 In a message dated 1/15/2010 2:17:08 PM Pacific Standard Time,
 cwreti at gmail.com writes:

> We smart-a** kid engineers at Wayne State Univ. TV in Detroit made that
> same fun discovery, plus, taking the gooey gelled cup outside and
> lighting
> it made a small, intense fire, with thick black smoke, probably
> something
> like napalm. I hope that the daily handling of xylene way back then did
> not
> initiate some dormant process that lies in wait to get me!
>
>
> Chuck Reti
>  WV8A
>  Detroit MI
>
> On Jan 15, 2010, at Jan 15 3:05 PM, C. Park Seward wrote:
>
> >> Also, don't make the mistake I made once. I poured a little in a
>> plastic cup. It didn't take long for it to melt the bottom of the cup!
>> Handy if
>> you want a tube and not a cup
>
>
>
>
> =
>
>

 In regard to the use of Zylene and Ampex (or similar) types of head
 cleaner, I have heard a disturbing amount of stories here (in LA) recently
 about
 degenerative illnesses and even premature deaths that somehow seem
 strangely
 coincidental when one considers that those individuals were tape room
 employees of the 50's through 80's, using head cleaner several times a
 day. I don't
 believe that there is any scientific study in these exact geographical
 locations, but someone might someday take a close look at the employee
 records
 and their later years in life to draw any sort of conclusions. I remember
 back in the 70's of specific warnings from co-workers about the red cans
 of
 Ampex head cleaner.

 I think the same sort of statistical study could be applied (if not
 already) to Mt. Wilson engineers who were bombarded daily with RF from
 that highly
 congested area. The stories I've heard are not pretty.

 David Crosthwait

 DC Video
 Archived Media Transfer & Re-mastering Services
 WWW.DCVIDEO.COM
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