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Silicon oil?
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From: David Dean [SMTP:deano-at-corridor-dot-net]
Sent: Monday, February 02, 1998 4:34 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Silicon oil?
>From: Michael Baumann [SMTP:baumann-at-proton.llumc.edu]
>Sent: Saturday, January 31, 1998 10:25 AM
>To: Tesla List
>Subject: Silicon oil?
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>I hope someone can help here.. I have a chance to get 5gallons
>of some cooling/inuslating oil.. [ they are changing the oil
>in our ion source]
>The stuff is labeled polydimethylsiloxane [Dow Corning 200]
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>Anyone here have an idea of what I might have here?
>[yes, I can experiment later.. but if its not worth it, I'll
>just let the hazmat guy take it.
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>Michael Baumann Optivus Technology Inc.|Loma Linda University Medical
Center
>San Bernardino, California. (909)799-8308 |Internet: baumann-at-llumc.edu
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Michael,
The silicon oil is well worth keeping...Dow Corning 200 used to go for about
$60 a gal. back in the seventys
if memory serves. We used to use the stuff as fuser oil in copiers. It
should be clear. Unless it is contaminated
I don't know why anyone would change it...it is an excellent lubricant for
some plastics, also teflon. It has excellent thermal qualities as well.
Some of the electric space heaters that look like old timey radiators have
silicon oil in them as a heat storage/transfer medium. Sili oil would be
better than mineral oil for transformers etc for that very reason.