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What items have PCBs?
From: Adam[SMTP:absmith-at-tiac-dot-net]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 1997 1:58 PM
To: tesla list
Subject: What items have PCBs?
I have read some of the safety pages and warnings on the web about the
dangers of PCB oils, and I have a couple of unanswered questions:
1. Which items have PCB Oil or how do it tell? I have some capacitors
from "Glass Mike" and "Plastic Capacitor" which clearly have some kind of
oil in them, is this PCB oil? I had one that leaked, and I had it
disposed of immediately, just to be on the safe side.
2. How about that black tar in the Neon transformers. I unpotted a
couple a few years back, and now in retrospect I am wondering if perhaps
that was not such a good idea. Anybody have any idea what that black
crud is, or what % of PCBs it may contain?
3. Is exposure to PCB oils a long term effect and/or cummulative, like
that of lead poisoning? How does exposure to PCB oils compare
statistically to say, cigarette smoking? Are there any studies on the
WWW?
I want to keep coiling, cancer free, so this information is important to
me :-)
Thanks,
Adam
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