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Re: Unpotting Neon / Pictures / d-Limonene
From: Adam[SMTP:absmith-at-tiac-dot-net]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 1997 12:19 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Unpotting Neon / Pictures / d-Limonene
>Why not use d-Limonene on the secondaries? Isn't that where a carbon track
>would most likely be? If this stuff attacks the enamel insulation, wouldn't
>the primary be equally vulnerable?
It did not attack the enamel, which is probably polyurethane. The reason
I did not soak the secondaries was to avoid ending up with a mushy
secondary. The secondary windings have more paper than wire, and I have
no idea what the paper may be impregnated with, or if it would dissolve
in d-Limonene (it dissolved my paper towels). The primary on the other
hand was all enamel wire, with no paper.
>I would imagine one would want to
>thoroughly bake the cleaned xfmr to vaporize any water residue, and this
>would be effective for purging the secondary as well.
Maybe, but I just don't have a good place to bake transformers. I
certainly would not do this in any oven that is indoors and used for food.
>By the way, nice job & nice pictures, thanks for posting. What size xfmr was
>this?
This was a Franceformer 15kV 30mA unit, which I received with one dead
winding. Now it works 100%, and it looks cool! BTW, I love Mike
Harrison's idea for this to be named the first official "Pole Piglet".
-Adam
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