Re: Maxwell cap oil is....

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Original poster: "brian by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <ka1bbg1-at-mcttelecom-dot-com>

Hi, castor oil is used a lot in caps and performs well,they use special
filtering to get rid of the fibre and quadruple distill it. you might be
able to get 4x distilled castor oil if you ask the cap makers where to get
some. cul brian f.
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Subject: RE: Maxwell cap oil is....


> Original poster: "Ross Overstreet by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <ross-o-at-mindspring-dot-com>
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> Some complain that veggie oil may turn rancid and start to stink after a
> while.  Corey Ruch, one of the guys who helped me out a lot in the early
> days, has several rolled LDPE caps made with veggie oil and they perform
> fine.  See his site here:
> http://members.tripod-dot-com/coreyonline/newtesla.html
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> Seeya,
> Ross-O
> http://users.better-dot-org/roverstreet/
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> Subject: Re: Maxwell cap oil is....
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> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
> <A123X-at-aol-dot-com>
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> Are there any oils that aren't usable? How about vegetable oil? Is there
any
> reason why it couldn't be used?
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> In a message dated 4/16/01 9:39:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
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> > while repairing the rotor for the SRSG ( which has cap oil all over it )
I
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> > familiar smell... It finally donned on me what that smell was...  Castor
> > Oil ... the same smell that
> > was all over the wings of my radio controlled airplanes...
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