A Scrapper's Dream

**sawmilleng** · 01-26-2014, 06:37 PM

I'm following your adventures with some envy. There's probably even a few treasures in there that you need to discuss with your boss so they end up in your home shop!!

How big is the turbogenerator? What voltage did it run at? As others have said, there are some markets for the used stuff that you will probably be investigating. Don't forget to test transformer oils for PCB's (and oil-filled capacitors, especially because of the age of the stuff!)

If you don't already know about this site, "Surplus record", its a very good start to find the people who buy and sell the big stuff like what you have. Link here. They put out a monthly publication advertising stuff in very fine print, like a little phone book about an inch thick. Some people have been advertising in there since the 20's!!

A big THANK YOU for sharing this!!

Jon.

**Bear** · 01-26-2014, 11:49 PM

Originally Posted by sawmilleng

I'm following your adventures with some envy. There's probably even a few treasures in there that you need to discuss with your boss so they end up in your home shop!!

How big is the turbogenerator? What voltage did it run at? As others have said, there are some markets for the used stuff that you will probably be investigating. Don't forget to test transformer oils for PCB's (and oil-filled capacitors, especially because of the age of the stuff!)

If you don't already know about this site, "Surplus record", its a very good start to find the people who buy and sell the big stuff like what you have. Link here. They put out a monthly publication advertising stuff in very fine print, like a little phone book about an inch thick. Some people have been advertising in there since the 20's!!

A big THANK YOU for sharing this!!

Jon.

I think once those bids are taken they'll be expecting pretty much all parts of it, at least all major ones anyway, to be coming to them

**Patriot76** · 01-27-2014, 03:20 AM

Originally Posted by sawmilleng

I'm following your adventures with some envy. There's probably even a few treasures in there that you need to discuss with your boss so they end up in your home shop!!

How big is the turbogenerator? What voltage did it run at? As others have said, there are some markets for the used stuff that you will probably be investigating. Don't forget to test transformer oils for PCB's (and oil-filled capacitors, especially because of the age of the stuff!)

If you don't already know about this site, "Surplus record", its a very good start to find the people who buy and sell the big stuff like what you have. Link here. They put out a monthly publication advertising stuff in very fine print, like a little phone book about an inch thick. Some people have been advertising in there since the 20's!!

A big THANK YOU for sharing this!!

Jon.

We have had PCB tests completed and everything is looking good. I cannot give any information about the generators yet because the research has not been done. A picture of one of them is posted. Thank you for the contact information. I had been contacting individual buyers, very time consuming. Now I will be able to post to numerous companies.

Bear, as far as the metal buyers, each one was told we may use multiple vendors depending on price and needs. Although each one was especially interested in the miles of one and two inch copper wires running throughout the building, none put a condition on their bids.

**miked** · 01-28-2014, 06:23 PM

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It took me a minute to remember where I had seen some of these. In California there is a company using hot springs to power old refurbed generators similar to this one. They were getting their generators from old scrapped USN ships.

Very interesting project, thank you for sharing. Mike