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Re: paraffin potting..was Re: NST insulations



You can go directly to one of the major oil company warehouse supply depots
and buy paraffin in 55 pound boxes at greatly reduced cost.  Use your yellow
pages to find them.  There are several different types of paraffin, mostly
different melting points.
Bert


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Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 5:12 PM
Subject: paraffin potting..was Re: NST insulations


> Original Poster: "Jon Lagler" <rockcrawl-at-netzero-dot-net>
>
>
> > Original Poster: "Mike Nolley" <mnolley-at-mail.slc.edu>
> >
> > The thread about de-potting NST's sparked a question about potting
> compounds---
> >     Does anyone know a relatively cheap source of paraffin, besides
> > candles?  I'm
> > planning to eventually pot my power supply in something that is
non-toxic,
> and
> > won't leak.  I have heard about mineral oil + poly combinations, and I
may
> go
> > this route if I haven't yet found candles, or some other source of
> paraffin
> > which
> > isn't prohibitively expensive.
> >             --Mike
> >
> >
> Mike,
>  Try the grocery store. Parafin can be purchase in blocks for sealing
> homemade jellys and jams after they are made. I know because my mom uses
it
> all the time. I'm sure it's fairly inexpensive too.
>
> Later,
> Jon
>
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