Mark,

Did you get my message of yesterday regarding the give away stuff?
I ran into some problems this afternoon, and it will be tomorrow  before
I can get the check in the mail.   Let me know if this is a problem, and
I'll do what I can to fix it.

                                                                    Thanks
and Regards,


Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark G. Forbes <forbesm@PEAK.ORG>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 9:03 PM
Subject: FREE STUFF AGAIN (you pay shipping)


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>We're cleaning out and we've got some random 'stuff' to give
>away. Those of you who've participated in this sort of thing
>before know the drill, but I'll re-hash it for the benefit of
>those who don't.
>
>I have a bunch of surplus power supplies (like 1500 or so) that
>supply 24VAC at 400ma from 115VAC. I also have some 240VAC input
>types, with a 24VAC/700ma output rating. We've changed over to a
>switching supply due to increased loads in our system, so we won't
>be using these. We've talked to the surplus dealers, but they're
>not giving us offers that are all that interesting, so I'd just as
>soon *give* them to you noble, upstanding, worthy PICListers.
>
>They're packed 36 to a box, about 41 lbs/box. If you want some, here's
>what ya gotta do.
>
> - Send me an email saying how many boxes you'd like. I'm not going to
>   break up boxes, since I don't have time to do it. If I start to run
>   short of units, I'll let you know that. Next......
>
> - Send me a monetary unit (check, cash, MO, whatever) for the shipping
>   charges, UPS Ground, from Corvallis, Oregon to wherever-you-are. If
>   your address is a residence, add that UPS surcharge too. For a rate
>   calculator, see http://www.ups.com/using/services/rave/qcost.cgi, and
>   use 41 lbs as the weight, 15 x 17 x 9 inches, origin 97330, daily
pickup,
>   'your packaging'. For example, to zone 8 (New York City), it's about
>$24/box.
>   For zone 4 (Silicon Valley) it's about $11.
>
> - Include a shipping label with your name, address, city, state, zip, and
>   any other routing information that UPS may need. Remember that UPS can't
>   deliver to a PO Box number...they need a physical street address.
>
> - I'll slap your label on a box, and leave it on the dock for the UPS
>   guy to haul off. You'll see it a week or so later.
>
> - BTW, I also have a bag full of bridge rectifiers, about 4A types. If you
>   need some, to go with your power supplies, say so and I'll throw some
in.
>   I might be able to find some capacitors too.....
>
>Other free stuff......
>
>We've got an assortment of nifty electronic 'stuff' around that we're going
to
>have to get rid of. If you want to send along a 'quantity of monetary
units'
>with a shipping label, I'll send back a box with a 'quantity of electronic
>stuff'
>proportional to the shipping cost. No garbage....if it's really junk, I'll
>toss it in the dumpster. But I hate to pitch perfectly good stuff just
because
>we don't have a spot to park it anymore, or it's obsolete for future sale
to
>our customers. I may have some small vacuum fluorescent displays,
components,
>random PC stuff (anybody need a bunch of brand-new Token Ring cards?),
>motherboards,
>power supplies, LED display panels, speakers, sample parts, screws, nuts,
etc.
>
>You don't get to pick anything specific, though if you have preferences
I'll do
>what I can to accomodate them if I have a choice. We're moving our company
>headquarters down to Las Vegas, and squashing the office here in Corvallis
down
>to a smaller area. And we've outsourced our manufacturing, so we're getting
rid
>of some of the stuff related to that. It's free to you, else it goes in the
>landfill, even if it's perfectly good. I only have so much space in my
>garage....
>
>FWIW, US Postal Service cheapo-parcel-post is about $10 more than UPS, so
that's
>why I suggest you just use the UPS prices. Slower, too.
>
>Mark G. Forbes, R & D Engineer  |  Acres Gaming, Inc.    (541) 766-2515
>KC7LZD                          |  815 NW 9th Street     (541) 753-7524 fax
>forbesm@peak.org                |  Corvallis, OR 97330
>http://www.peak.org/~forbesm
>
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