Re: Unpotting Neon / Pictures / d-Limonene

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Subject: Re: Unpotting Neon / Pictures / d-Limonene
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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 21:26:52 -0600
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From: 	Gary Lau  06-Nov-1997 1722[SMTP:lau-at-hdecad.ENET.dec-dot-com]
Sent: 	Thursday, November 06, 1997 3:39 PM
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Subject: 	Re: Unpotting Neon / Pictures / d-Limonene

>From:   Adam[SMTP:absmith-at-tiac-dot-net]
>Sent:   Thursday, November 06, 1997 11:58 AM
>To:     Tesla List
>Subject:        Re: Unpotting Neon / Pictures / d-Limonene
>
>Now, about d-Limonene:  Mine came from an analytical lab where I worked,
>and it is probably only available pure through mail order chemical
>suppliers like VWR, Aldrich, Fisher, etc...  You can most certainly get
>it from them.  There are also a couple of cleaning products on the market
>like Citrus XL which say 90%+ d-Limonene.  These cleaners have water in
>them, but this is ok, since you only need to soak the core pieces and the
>primary- you NEVER want to use solvents on the secondary windings (fire
>hazard, insulation problems, etc...).  The bad thing about the d-Limonene
>cleaners is that they smell very powerfully of oranges.  Nauseatingly
>powerful in fact.

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?  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.

By the way, nice job & nice pictures, thanks for posting.  What size xfmr was
this?

Gary Lau
Waltham, MA