Re: Drying tranny oil

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Original poster: "colin.heath4 by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <colin.heath4-at-ntlworld-dot-com>

under a vacumn the moisture will boil off although how long this will take i
have no idea
i know this happens as we experiance problems with this at work vacumn
packing food and the such

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> Original poster: "Loudner, Godfrey by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <gloudner-at-SINTE.EDU>
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> Hi Ben
>
> The oil can he heated to a high temperature and dehydrated under a vacuum.
> The vacuum process is supposed to take a long time. I would like to try
this
> myself, but I don't know how to operate my vacuum pump. An x-ray
technician
> told me that he boils a gallon or so of oil to drive off moisture when he
> services a dental x-ray tubehead. I think you should look into getting the
> oil purified by professional services. Particulate matter can be removed
by
> a fine mess screen filter.
>
> Godfrey Loudner
>
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> Original poster: "Ben McMillen by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>
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> Hi all,
>   I recently acquired 110 gallons of transformer oil..
> Unfortunately, when
> I got it I had to put it into a 55 gal drum that had some water in
> it
> (Bad.. I know.. but it was drain it or loose the free oil) Is there
> any way
> to dry the oil (get the water out)? I was wondering if you could
> maybe put
> the drum under a vacuum.. Also, the oil had alot of crud (corrosion
> from
> the tanks it was in).. can this be easily filtered out? I don't want
> to use
> the oil and then have problems with conductive stuff floating around
> inside.. ;)
>
> Coiling In Pittsburgh
> Ben McMillen
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