That is a really cool transformer, too bad it's going to scrap. In my campus we have a transformer that supplies the mains for all the buildings, which as far as I know dates from about '31. Back in the day, they overdimensioned it, only in the early 2000's did we start running short on it and a second transformer was brought in and paralleled to the old one which is still in operation.
It should be put in some museum or so. Would be interesting to see what state the transformer is in internally. Check if the resistance of the coils is OK and fire it up.
Wow, it seems that only the oldest, more dangerous oil, is the best. Probably full of PCB's though. Amazing that the integrity of the TX survived, what, 20 yrs of water submergence? Great vid. Cheers !!!
Beautiful old girl, love that you tested the oil too. Thanks and will look forward to catching you another time on the side of the road somewhere in a storm out west when I'm back in NZ ;) Wish you were here to check out the laser I'm working on at the moment, 100W of concrete and steel vapourising green beast hehe
The transformer tank was most likely painted with lead base paint, inside and outside of the tank. Better quality, now in the PC world, lead based paint is almost obsolete, and TX tanks rust out a lot faster.
Well made unit, did well to remain sealed after all those years and the oil is still good. Are able to salvage any good fittings before it gets scrapped?
Josh C The arcs in this video are from an oil testing machine.. He didn’t do anything with the transformer except taking an oil sample. Oil is good so that’s no issue.
not only good oil, but GREAT materials and craftsmanship....... the junk they pawn off as "copper"/"aluminum"/"steel"/"varnish"/"shellac" = bad lolz....
ElectroXa Just rent a forklift.. It’s like 50 euros/dollars/whatever for a day. 1500kg is really not much if you have the right tools. Sure for a human it’s like 80 times too heavy.
@@RODALCO2007 Will have had. seeing as it was out of service for 40 years it last probably had an oil change in 1970, so the oil would either have been PCB oil, or it was mineral oil replacing PCB oil. Even the old transformers here will have some PCB oil in them, despite having had a couple of flushes, it stays around a long time.
If the oil is full of PCB's, scrapping the damned thing will probably fetch less money than de-contaminating the damned thing. So that's why RODALCO2007 has not deployed it against those infernal wasps. He would be bankrupt paying for a refill of oil.
That sounds like a dot-matrix printer, and it probably does it like that because there is no paper guide like in a bigger dot-matrix printer and they rely on the operator to either catch the small report (which is not necessary) or just have it hanging when it prints. Most store receipt printers print the receipt the same way, last things first. Dot-matrix printers are reasonably efficient printers when it comes to ink usage but also their size. Dot-Matrix printers can be fast (just think about the food products that have a "Use before date" on them, most of the time that's a Dot Matrix printer that prints 3-4 bottles per second with the right information, they can even print eggs that way in a surprisingly fast amount of time, with also a surprisingly reliable system that does not break the eggs while a printhead runs over the eggs. Also, Dot-matrix printers can print on curved surfaces (something inktjet and laser printers have a hard time doing), and in order to save some space, they might print on the roll just before it leaves the printer, which, given the fact the sound of what it prints is actually comparable to the thing that runs out of the printer just 1-2 seconds later, I think that might be the case for that device.
That’s a real shame that this transformer is off to the scrappers. Could have been nice to drain the unit and clean the outside for a static display. One doesn’t see such old stuff around anymore. A few weeks ago, I was very fortunate to see a pre WWI transformer still in the air, stepping 2400 volts up to 7200 volts for customers outside a town in western Minnesota.
Dat is omdat hij eigenlijk een Nederlandse man is die 30+ jaar geleden verhuisde naar Nieuw-Zeeland (New Zealand), accent verleer/krijg je niet echt weg :-)
