Martin Angove wrote:
In message ,
(Andrew Gabriel) wrote:

I also got some private feedback from someone who used to be in the supply
industry who said transformer size _is_ important to them -- they want
them big and heavy, so they can't be stolen ;-)


Didn't stop someone stealing a 75MVA (? might be a factor out there, it
was a few years ago) transfromer from the ex-steelworks at
Templeborough. When British Steel handed the building over to the group
which turned it into the Magna Science Adventure Centre (I worked there
for a while) they left the last arc furnace transformer parked in the
lot while they found somewhere to put it.

No-one knows what happened to it, and it must have involved a large
crane and a low-loader, but when they came to claim it just before the
centre opened it was no longer there. Magna ended up paying a lot of
money to BS for having "lost" their transformer.


bit hard to resell that one...

NT