Too bad you're not closer to us here in Portland... Local PoCo (actually one of two majors serving the metro area) is changing all of their meters over to digital now--all of the old analog meters are just being thrown in a big pile after final readings are taken. Not sure what they plan to do with all of them (wholesale to smaller utilities?) but I managed to get ahold of one fairly easily. When I called the guy in the meter services department, his only question was "how many, and where do you want them?" I only asked for one to build a meter lamp, but I bet they wouldn't think twice if someone asked to bring their truck and load up. Mine was shipped to my door, free of (upfront) charge.
