You can buy mineral oil at any good farm supply store or a store that has
item for treating farm animals.
Mineral oil is used for horses and cattle that are having digestive
problems. My veterinarian used to pump it into one of my horses on a regular
basis....Needless to say....The horse is no longer with us.
Expect to pay 20 or 30 bucks a gallon for it.
73
Jim W7RY
----- Original Message -----
From: Stu Greene <wa2moe@firstinter.net>
To: David Clemons <dave@egh.com>; <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 12:02
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Oil for dummy load
|
| At 12:42 PM 1/25/02 -0500, David Clemons wrote:
|
|
| > 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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