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Lew Hodgett[_2_] Lew Hodgett[_2_] is offline
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"dpb" wrote:

I'd guess this unit was probably 40 yr old when Lew visited and that
was probably around that long ago as well making it somewhere near
many moons since it was new.


That plant was long in the tooth when our class visited which was '58
time frame.

My guess is that it passed the century mark several years ago.

That utility was strictly a belt and suspenders bunch.

Their engineering dept considered 50 year old technology as break
thru.G.

Lew