POSSIBLE DANGER ! Coolants like the one you describe very frequently contained high amounts of PCB ! This is a hazardous group of chemicals that is now to be treated as very dangerous waste! It can a
I have a good old reliable dummy load, as shown in the picture: http://groups.msn.com/TUVAORBUST/rfparts.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=5 I havent looked into how one replaces or checks the cooling oi
PCBs will typically have a sharp smell while the safe stuff smells like...oil such as castor oil, mineral oil, or motor oil. Silicone oil normally has no discernable odor, but it 's doubtful it woul
Worrying about PCB oil is about as ridiculous as worrying about global warming. Both will take a long time to hurt you and thats even questionable. Take reasonable precautions, dont bathe in it or mi
Hi Carl ! Global warming may not affect you seriously in your lifetime...but it could affect your grandchildren.. that does not concern you ? But to stay on topic: It is true that PCB is not an acute
It concerns me in a small way but since there is nothing that any humans can do Im not going to brood over it. The whole solar system is in a warming cycle. Yep I would hope that no hams are going to
No leaks, no hazard. However, I have occasionally borrowed one of the larger Bird loads which had been filled with PCB. When PCBs began to be seen as a problem in the 1980s, a whole batch was scrappe