[Leica] Copper Wire

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 11:51 AM -0500 3/22/08, Jim Nichols wrote:
>I have even read of those that remove copper conductors from 
>high-voltage sub-stations.  Why some haven't been killed, I'll never 
>know. Around here, the salvage yards are cooperating with law 
>enforcement to try to reduce the market for the copper.
>


Some have been killed. A couple of years ago someone got fatally 
zapped here in Vancouver in a high voltage sub-station.






>Jim Nichols
>Tullahoma, TN USA
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com>
>To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 8:18 AM
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Copper Wire
>
>
>>  Now the folks with common sense are raiding business's air conditioners.
>>  Cut the condensate high and low pressure lines and you might have ten
>>  pounds of copper.  My favorite E-6 lab was down for two days last summer
>>  because of this foraging activity.
>>
>>  On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>  For some, logic can prove anything!  These are the types that end up in
>>>  Washington, D.C.
>>>
>>>  With the current price of copper going through the roof, anyone with
>>>  common
>>>  sense would have sold it at the nearest salvage yard.
>>>
>>>  Jim Nichols
>>>  Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>  From: <grduprey@mchsi.com>
>>>  To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>>>  Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 10:39 PM
>>>  Subject: [Leica] Copper Wire
>>>
>>>
>>>  > Something to think about...
>>>  >
>>>  > After having dug to a depth of 10 yards last year, New York scientists
>>>  > found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the
>>>  > conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more
>>>  than
>>>  > 100 years ago.
>>>  >
>>>  > Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed,
>>>  > California scientists dug to a depth of 20 yards, and shortly after,
>>>  > headlines in the LA Times newspaper read: 'California archaeologists
>>>  have
>>>  > found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their
>>>  > ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a
>>>  > hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.'
>>>  >
>>>  > One week later, " The Express News," a local newspaper in Texas
>>>   reported
>>>  > the following:
>>>  >
>>>  > 'After digging as deep as 30 yards in corn fields near Austin ,  Bubba
>>>  > Johnson , a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found > 
>>>absolutely
>>>  > nothing.  Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Texas  had
>>>  > already gone wireless.'
>>>  >
>>>  > Gene
>>>  >
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>>
>>
>>  -- Don
>>  don.dory@gmail.com
>>
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