[Amps] water and vapor phase tube cooling

Harold B. Mandel ka1xo at juno.com
Mon Mar 7 21:35:13 EST 2005


dear Joe,


The fluid was clear, and smelled a lot like alcohol.
That's why neither of us who were up to our elbows
were overly concerned.

Hal




 
> > What I didn't know about industrial ethylene glycol was that it
> > physically burns human skin even though it might not be 
> > at a hot temperature. 
> 
> There was some abnormal additive in that ethylene glycol if you 
> received chemical burns from it.  I was regularly doused with 
> the 50-50 glycol/water solution when working with the TV transmitter 
> 
> cooling systems with no dermatological effects (no fresh water 
> supply 
> at my sites either).


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