On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:59:29 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Larry Jaques wrote:

Gunner Asch wrote:

Grenade is right. shudder Wouldn't a larger head be better? 18SCFM,
$149 http://fwd4.me/T5c 6.5hp gas engine, $129 http://fwd4.me/T5h
Or a cheap, used 5hp electric motor could power it nicely.

Small and portable in relation to a large plasma cutter..simply isnt in
the cards. Medium sized and sorta heavy..that will work.

Or get a tank of Nitrogen (hell..steal one off a telephone pole after a
hard rainy week (just kidding!) and use it. And nitrogen is really cheap

Nitrogen bottle on a phone pole? What's that all about?


The old, lead jacketed cable would pinhole. The bundles of wire were
wrapped in paper to protect them from the heat while the lead was
soldered along the seam, or during repairs. Water would get in the
pinholes and be adsorbed into the paper. That cause problems for the
phone lines. They would use the nitrogen bottles to pressurize the
cable to prevent water from getting in, and to use an ultrasonic sniffer
to find the pinholes.

There is very little leaded cable left in use. It was replaced by
flooded cable, filled with a gel to allow direct burial or aerial use.

I haven't seen a nitrogen bottle chained to a pole in over 20 years.
I used to see them fairly often. Sometimes two or three chained to a
single pole, when they had a major problem, or they were building out a
new section and the ports weren't sealed.


Still see them here in the rural areas of California, where wire has
been hanging for many many years in wind and Heat.

Gunner

One could not be a successful Leftwinger without realizing that,
in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers
and mothers of Leftwingers, a goodly number of Leftwingers are
not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
Gunner Asch