[Amps] Non Detergent motor oil for dummy loads?????

[Glen Zook]

You can get mineral oil by the gallon at just about any farm and ranch store.  A gallon there is usually cheaper than a pint at a drug store.  Also, you might try going by your local electric company's service center and asking about transformer oil (much better than even mineral oil).  Usually they will just give you a gallon because it costs more to do the paperwork to sell you such a small amount.  The electric company uses hundreds of gallons of non-PCB transformer oil in their distribution transformers.

Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


--- On Fri, 12/5/08, Lloyd Korb <k8dio at windstream.net> wrote:

From: Lloyd Korb <k8dio at windstream.net>

I am resurrecting an old Heath Cantenna and having a hard time finding mineral oil in large quantities.  I have heard that is okay to use non detergent motor oil.  Is there any truth to that?