What is mineral oil? Are there some common trade names? Where do you buy it?
--- Stu Greene <wa2moe@firstinter.net> wrote:
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> At 12:42 PM 1/25/02 -0500, David Clemons wrote:
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> > The older transformer oil contained PCBs. If you use that type
> > of oil, you do not want to get it on you when you work with it as
> > exposure to PCBs can possibly lead to cancer. The newer transformer
> > oil might not contain PCBs, but I don't know how to tell the
> > difference between new and old. Mineral oil, if it will dissipate
> > the heat, definitely sounds better.
> I agree. I don't know how to tell the difference between transformer oils.
> I was aware of the problem with transformer oil in 1977 (the Hudson River
> was being treated for the junk that General Electric dumped into the river,
> and my Heath dummy load was filled with mineral oil in 1977 (lots of
> bottles) and is still in use. It dissipates heat nicely and obviously does
> not contain anything but mineral oil, a laxative.
>
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