RE: First light 2

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Original poster: "Garry Freemyer by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <garry-at-ndfc-dot-com>

Having depotted three, usually they use kerosene or mineral spirits.

It's really really messy I gotta warn ye. Rather than disolving the tar out
I'm going to just melt what I can get out and then replace the tar removed
with mineral oil. I have a theory that the real culprit in shorting isn't
the tar so much as it is the cracks that appear in the tar that let little
pockets of air that can quickly become ionized that conduct a spark that
burns a carbon track in the tar that is only removed when the tar is
removed.

If ye want to disolve the tar out, I might reccomend putting some sort of
vibrator on the container to help lossen the tar. It took me weeks to get
all the tar out. Meanwhile it got on the floor, the carpet of the APARTMENT,
and on the drapes, on the bottom of my shoes, in my car, on the back seat,
on the round of wood I used for the tesla coil enclosure and on the fence.
Reminded me of the blob - it's alive, it moves and travels faster than the
speed of light.

tar can be removed from many surfaces, hands and carpet with a little dab of
margerine.

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:53 AM
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Subject: Re: First light 2


Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<rblaisdell-at-juno-dot-com>

Thanks for all the help on how to cure NST's.
When depotting a NST, I would assume(I don't like to assume) that one
melts as much tar out and then uses some sort of volatile solvent to get
the rest off.
What  solvents have been found to be good for this?

Peace,
-------Ry--------