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Re: Help

Posted By: Steve
Date: Thursday, 28 September 2006, at 6:23 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Help (SVP Neon Equipment)


> I don't remember seeing it posted here.
> Maybe I missed it. What do you have and how
> much do you want for it?

> IMO the value of used neon equipment has
> been diminished considerably in the past
> couple of years due to some of it being
> listed as "refurbished" (though it
> rarely really is) and sold for low dollar to
> unsuspecting or uninformed buyers (usually
> hobbyists, but not always). Consequently,
> potential buyers often expect to get very
> good quality used equipment - and even new
> equipment - for a similar price. IMO this
> does two things: It hurts the neon industry
> as a whole and only serves to line the
> pockets of the seller who has little regard
> for what they are doing and even less
> invested monetarily in what they are
> pedaling: Little money for the old used
> equipment they managed to dig up and some
> quick clean-up time on the outside to try
> and make it look a little better.
> Unfortunately the buyers do not get to see
> what the inside looks like, which is really
> more important than the outside from a
> functionality standpoint. The other
> detriment to our industry from their
> "gear" is the attempt to use
> something for an application that it was not
> designed for. A couple examples that quickly
> come to mind is attempting to pass off a
> transformer with a single high voltage
> secondary coil as a "neon
> bombarder", a Delta configuration
> distribution transformer as a DC saturable
> core reactor (Variac choke), or a used phase
> angle control that was designed for
> something completely different as being a
> "bombarder choke".

> I feel sorry for the family of the loved one
> who will someday lose their life messing
> around with their newly acquired “neon
> equipment” because they took the seller at
> their word that “this should work fine”,
> (emphasis on *should*) with no real-world
> testing (or for that matter liability
> insurance) to back up their opinion.

> Unfortunately some individuals rely on the
> old saying being true that “There’s a sucker
> born every minute”.

> Mark

Mark,

I have an SE-12 manifold system that I purchased from you and never got around to hooking up. I have a bombarding transformer and variac choke that I bought from Jack King that I also never hooked up and I sure hope it does not fit the description you just gave. I have a set of cannon fires on a stand with the swing out 3rd burner and regulator that I did spend a great number of hours on and they burn very nice. I also have a set of five point cross fires, hand tipping torch, 16" ribbon burner, Welch vacuum pump, blower, bronze screen, bending block, corks, etc... I have over 5k invested and am currently askiing $3500 for the lot. As I said, I did run all the fires and began practicing but never got around to hooking anything up on the processing end so all that equipment is just as it was when I bought it. I am not trying to re-sell anything, I simply am not going to be able to pursue neon any longer and need to sell the equipment I have.


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