Gee, and I had just packed up 20 673's!
----- Original Message ----- From: "patrick jankowiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 7:35 PM Subject: [AMRadio] disposal of mercury vapor rectifers > Seriously anyone wanting to give up their MV rectifiers can contact me > off list. Proper disposal after they are used up is assured. If I drop > dead, consultants to my executor include a couple of people who know > what to do with them, and the capacitors, and the beryllium > oxide-containing tubes, and the WWII aircraft instruments.... They'll > either take them for their own use, find equally 'green' homes for > them, or recycle them properly in accorance with regulation. > > sincerely, > Patrick > > > > From: Brett Gazdzinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: RE: [AMRadio] Re: AMRadio digest, Vol 4 #246 - 16 msgs > > To: [email protected] > > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > > What is your address? > > I will check what I have left. > > I have no use for them, never liked them, with their warm up, their > > arc overs, the toxic stuff inside. > > > > I cant say I like any vacuum tube power rectifier, solid state > > devices are so much more efficient and simple. > > > > I am not sure what I have, as I never bought them, but got them > > in equipment, or in collections of tubes I bought when you > > could get a huge box of tubes for $5.00.... > > > > I would hope you and the people who clean up after you pass away WOULD > > dispose of them correctly. > > > > Not sure if its actually legal to ship toxic waste through the mail. > > > > Brett > > N2DTS > > > > > > > > > > > Everyone please ship their intact MV rectifiers to me for proper > > > disposal. > > > > > > (no duds please..) > > > > > > >Mercury vapor tubes are real nasty, you cant throw them out > > > >in the trash, (at least you should not), a real toxic waste problem, > > > > > > Patrick > _______________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > >
