Re: NST REPAIR

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Original poster: "Allanh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <allanh-at-starband-dot-net>

I've repaired and had failures and successes, NST's. But I wonder if you
have used gasoline to remove the tar. I've read comments on the list that
one shouldn't use gasoline, so I wonder if anyone else has tried.

allan

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Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: NST REPAIR


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> Original poster: "Steven Ward by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<srward16-at-hotmail-dot-com>
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> > The time working on the transformer was less than an hour and a half,
> >but it took over 4 hours to fix the hot air gun!
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> > I don't know whether the repair will last, but thought the procedure
> >might be of interest.
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> >Ed
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> Hi Ed,
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> I do nst repairs all of the time.  I think that if you got it working, you
> are in good condition and the repair will last.  Ive only had one bad NST
> repair, where the secondary shorted through itself.  Maybe i will try the
> heatgun, i have one.  Did you leave the rest of the transformer in the
tar??
>   It would be better to take the whole thing out of tar to keep it from
> breaking down the tar on the original "good" side.  But hey man, cool!  i
> like hearing about people bringing dead transformers back to life,
> especially if you get them for free!
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> Steve Ward.
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> PS my repairs can take at least 4 hours!! more like 6-8 hours!!
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