🧵 How do I acquire a Varian V3900
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 06:50:11 UTC No. 16461857
Hi.
I’m interested in acquiring a Varian V3900 at a discount for something I’m planning on building. I’ve checked a few websites like govdeals for any discounted military or university magnets, but I can’t find anything. What websites or irl places should I frequent to find good deals for something like this electromagnet? I’d like to acquire it without spending more than $2000 ideally.
Thank you.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 07:01:17 UTC No. 16461862
I got like six of these in my basement because my grandpa worked for them. Didn't know they were worth anything lol. We use them to prop up his engine block collection.
Anyway, Varian moved their main plant to South SJ so you can try estate sales around there. But truthfully, you don't want the Varian magnets. You want the CPI magnets. CPI is now a separate company but same plant but bigger magnets for power substations and power plants. Like 3x bigger and needs a forklift. CPI is in about the same area and hires the same people out of CCSJ.
Anonymous at Mon, 4 Nov 2024 07:03:19 UTC No. 16461863
>>16461862
relevant
https://www.varian.com/about-varian
and
https://www.cpii.com/
could probably throw delta star in here too because, even though it's an entirely separate company, but it was down the street from eimac and they used the same subcontractors
https://www.deltastar.com/
Anonymous at Tue, 5 Nov 2024 02:58:07 UTC No. 16463065
Thank you so much, I’ll see what I can do with these sources to find a Varian or CPI magnet.