RE: X-ray Power Supplies / bad oil (fwd)

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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:09:02 +1200
From: Malcolm Watts <m.j.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: X-ray Power Supplies / bad oil (fwd)

On 26 Sep 2004, at 14:52, High Voltage list wrote:

> Original poster: <sroys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:13:03 -0500
> From: Carl Litton <Carl_Litton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: X-ray Power Supplies / bad oil (fwd)
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> Thanks for the tip on the oil.  
> 
> Doc, wrote me that an even more simple test than chem. analysis is to
> simply dip paper in for 10 seconds then try to light it with a flame.
> Presumably the chlorinated oil would not easily burn.  That being the
> case, then I am OK as this stuff burns like crazy.  (Smells real bad
> though).

If chlorine is present, the flame will have a green colour to it.

Malcolm