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1st May 2021, 2:10 pm | #41 |
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Re: Selling advice High Volts PSU
Well if that's right then it will come as good news to the BVWS. I imagine hardly any of the stallholders at RetroTech are businesses, so they can exempted from the condition on the booking form that equipment has to be safe.
It is an issue which is raising wider interest than just on here. The government's Office for Product Safety and Standards has commissioned Electrical Safety First (used to be the Electricity Council) to look at offline second-hand sales and as part of that they visited car-boot sales, which might be as close as anyone's got to checking events like RetroTech, radio rallies etc https://www.electricalsafetyfirst.or...and-standards/. Electrical Safety First have also published their own report into second-hand electrical goods https://www.electricalsafetyfirst.or...ical-goods.pdf. They note rather often the trade in 'retro and vintage' items and on p14 they recommend to government, in headline characters: The private sale of unsafe vintage electrical products both in person and online should be banned. So if it's still legal now we might want to get a move on shifting the kit ... Cheers, GJ
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1st May 2021, 2:17 pm | #42 |
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Re: Selling advice High Volts PSU
It won't make a private seller exempt from a condition of an event. Event conditions aren't the same as a law. An event organiser can set any condition they like. However some stall holders are businesses.
But yes if you've got kit to shift, no reason why you can't elsewhere really.
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2nd May 2021, 11:01 am | #45 |
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Re: Selling advice High Volts PSU
Hey Jim, you're lucky in living down south close to all the action, vintage radio & subsequent swapmeets & auctions-wise. Guess you probably ken many of the Forum/BVWS/VMARS worthies, and they ken you. So if you flog your PSU, folk will no doubt trust your workmanship & the electrical safety of the item.
Forget all the banter about business classifications & liabilities. If you are worried about what folk have advised in these last three pages - just donate the PSU to the BVWS or Dulwich R&TV Museum & Mike Barker will probably auction it off for funds(mains plug duly snipped off). Or donate it to VMARS. Or, as I've already said,(noting that many forum readers are now aware of your PSU & concerns), just advertise it in this forum's "For Sale" section. End of story. Regards, David |
3rd May 2021, 3:43 pm | #46 |
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Re: Selling advice High Volts PSU
I think the legalese often seen on eBay etc. is a result of the idea that litigation might be forthcoming. I've never personally met anyone who's been the recipient or defended a compensation of this type, and wonder if it's an urban myth. It certainly seems rare enough that people burning themselves on coffee they didn't realise was hot and so on are reported in the more humorous newspaper cuttings.
It's good to be concerned, but really the best an individual can do is to be concerned and if in doubt don't sell. I imagine most members here are keen to do a good job, and the end result will be better than much of the new options out there. Caveat Emptor, as ever, I think. |
5th May 2021, 10:26 am | #47 |
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Re: Selling advice High Volts PSU
Thank mods for the bandwidth and to everyone else for their thoughts.
I’m still uncertain what to do so the thread may as well be closed. Thank you. Jim |
5th May 2021, 10:35 am | #48 |
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Re: Selling advice High Volts PSU
Before closing, would you mind putting a few photos up of it please? Would love to see it.
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5th May 2021, 12:38 pm | #49 |
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Re: Selling advice High Volts PSU
OK will do if we can pause the close down
Jim Edit Simple capacitor input filter on both 250v and 450v outputs with VR150 stabiliser off the 250 volt line and two 6.3 outputs. In a ANGRC9 PSU case. Last edited by G4XWDJim; 5th May 2021 at 12:45 pm. |
5th May 2021, 12:46 pm | #50 |
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Re: Selling advice High Volts PSU
As we all know, items like this are regularly traded between enthusiasts with no problems - you could offer it here in the sales section.
If you need to maximise the income you would probably do better by breaking it up and selling the transformers, chokes etc via an online auction. edit... having seen those pictures it would still be usable as a very nice power supply for a valve transmitter, much too good to break up. |
5th May 2021, 1:18 pm | #51 |
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Re: Selling advice High Volts PSU
It's far too nice to break up. It's also the sort of thing that only a specialist would have any use for. The best answer may be to vet who you sell it to.
Some of the American makers of heaving great kilowatt amplifiers for amateur radio used to ship their products with the mains transformer packed separately. The reasoning being that such a concentration of mass would damage the rest of the amplifier if its crate was mishandled, but once at its destination, the user could fit the transformer and put it on the air. These things did a couple of kV at approaching an amp. David
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5th May 2021, 3:29 pm | #52 |
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Re: Selling advice High Volts PSU
It looks very nice. Depending on exactly how big it is, I'd be happy to take it off your hands.
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5th May 2021, 3:41 pm | #53 |
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Re: Selling advice High Volts PSU
I think we all appreciate the picture Jim has put up that's a very nice looking PSU that many of us would have a good use for.
So before this turns into a bunch of requests I will close it so that Jim can decide what he wants to do. Cheers Mike T
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