Re: Cap bottom !

To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Cap bottom !
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:14:42 -0500
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From: 	Peter Electric[SMTP:elekessy-at-macquarie.matra-dot-com.au]
Reply To: 	elekessy-at-macquarie.matra-dot-com.au
Sent: 	Wednesday, August 27, 1997 6:44 AM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: Cap bottom !

Tesla List wrote:

> From:   Jim Fosse[SMTP:jim.fosse-at-bjt-dot-net]
> Reply To:       jim.fosse-at-bjt-dot-net
> Sent:   Monday, August 25, 1997 8:49 PM
> To:     Tesla List
> Subject:        Re: Cap bottom !
>
> >From:  Peter Electric[SMTP:elekessy-at-macquarie.matra-dot-com.au]
> >Reply To:      elekessy-at-macquarie.matra-dot-com.au
> >Sent:  Sunday, August 24, 1997 3:54 AM
> >To:    Tesla List
> >Subject:       Re: Cap bottom !
> >
>
> >Try a Hot melt glue gun. I make all my tops out of plexiglass and
> glue
> >them on with this stuff and it works a treat. You can also get it
> apart
> >again by heating with a hot air gun.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> Peter E.
>
>         Hot glue works well until you start using transformer oil. (At
>
> least Shell Diax-al). Transformer oil dissolves the hot glue in a few
> days.
>
>         I use epoxy glue for the bottom end cap and hot glue, which is
>
> above the oil level, for the top end cap.
>
>         Regards,
>
>         jim

I have been using Diala BX in mine and had no problems so far but you
have me worried now as I have just sealed a NS tranny with the stuff and
immersed it in oil. I might leave it sitting in a pan, just in case.

Cheers,

Peter E.