Re: Depotting a resin-filled tranny

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Original poster: "Jason Petrou by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>

Hi
Main problem with epoxy is that it sets like rock and i'm not sure of
anything that can dissolve it. If you mix 30% concentrated nitric and 70%
concentrated sulphuric acid this will probably get rid of it, but be careful
that it doesnt touch the windings or the case!

Jason
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Subject: Depotting a resin-filled tranny


> Original poster: "sundog by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<sundog-at-timeship-dot-net>
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> Hi All!
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>   I got an interesting delimma.  I have a 15/30 and a 12/30 that I want to
> depot.  The 15/30 is a tar-potted jobber, the 12/30 is a resin-epoxy
filled
> block. The 15/30 is no problem, a few days in the freezer, short the leads
> and let it run for 1/2 an hour or so, and then gentle use of the air
chisel
> will pop it out of it's tar block. Keyword is "gentle", with a cutting
> chisel on the air hammer, not the pointy one, and patience.  Knowledge of
> what is where in the NST case helps too.
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>  But the epoxy resin one...I haven't tried to depot one yet, and despise
> soaking them.  The 9/60 took 2 weeks, remained gooey and nasty.  I'd
rather
> get as much tar off as I can chipping, then use a pick on the rest and
when
> re-potting it in a metal container (ammo cannister prob'ly), put it in
it's
> bath of oil or vaseline, and let it simmer!!! Until little blobs of molten
> tar appear.  That way I get the potting in where the tar can melt out of.
>
> So far experimental chipping on the epoxy blocks were not too good.  it
> seemed it wouldn't release the windings without trying to take them off
> also.
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> Soaking the epoxy is out.  Maybe apply heat with a heatgun and airchisel?
> The epoxy trannies I had that died all shorted to the case by tracking
from
> the screw in the HV bushings.  The bushings usually cracked when this
> happenend, and the shorts became almost impossible to fix (tried to dremel
> out the charred epoxy, no luck.)  I would rather depot the tranny now than
> have to have it fail on me later when I'm tinkering on a coil (and
spoiling
> an evening of coilin').
>
> Ideas? (throwing it off the 6 story building I work in isn't an option,
> unfortunately)
> Shad
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