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Message #00522



To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Wouter Brok w.j.m.brok@stud.tue.nl
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 09:31:36 +0100
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Pager motors


Thanks for your reply.

Last couple of days I called a few companies in the neighbourhood:
One said: well ....strange question ... I do have a second hand pager for
you ..... for .. ehhh lets see ... 75 guilders ( = $37). So I hung up the
phone.
Another one: Pagers that come back to us? We destroy them emediately
because we don't want people to trade parts. So I'm sorry (not really my
guess was) I can't help you.
Ather companies gave similar results.

But http://www.distel.co.uk gives me hope again (thank you Rob)

I think I can get what I want there.

Thanks for the offer James, but I think it won't be necessary.

Wouter


At 19:58 16/02/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Well I do not know about Europe but some sugestions that I have heard that
>have had some limited success in the past are; take a few beam creations with
>you and visit the pager repair places in your home town show them your stuff
>and ask if they have anything that is destind for the trash. Usually they
say
>yes and say you are welcome to it sometimes the money grubbing scum out there
>will try to sell it to you. Your response should be something like,"Go soak
>your big fat head!" or my personal faviorite "Stick your head up my ass and
>fight for air!". If your efforts fail there is a shop in Toronto that I vis
>about once a week called Active Surplus. They buy and sell everything I mean
>EVERYTHING!!!. If you would like I could pickup some pager motors for you.
>Their price is 4$ Canadian (of Course) which translates into I think
Roughly 5
>gulder? anyways if your search comes up dry let me know and as long as you
can
>cover the shipping (which should not be too dear) I would be glad to help you
>out. Also if you are ever looking for some screwball device or thingy they
>may have it too. For example I just picked up two solenoids that are about
>the size of pager motors and operate on as low as 1.5V to 6V or higher
>(haven't) tried higher yet.
>
>Cheers
>
>James




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