Re: MOT transformer oil

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

Hard to imagine that motor oil would be cheaper than transformer oil....
Although I will concede that, because of large sale volume, and being a
possible "loss leader", one might find motor oil on sale at less than
$1.25/quart....which is about what real insulating oil costs.

Of course, with insulating oil, you don't have to worry about drying it, or
any of the additives that in motor oil  On the other hand, cheap, cheap
motor oil probably doesn't have much in the way of additives, and heat with
some silica gel will do a fairly good job drying the oil.

Yellow pages, Oil-Jobbers is what you are looking for...


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Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: MOT transformer oil


> Original poster: "Gregory Hunter by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>
> Yes! Non-detergent motor oil is good too (and cheaper)
>
> Greg
> http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg
>
> --- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz
> > <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <LazyBen13-at-aol-dot-com>
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have got a twin MOT voltage doubler coil and was
> > wondering if mineral oil is
> > OK for submerging the power supply in?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ben Diprose
> >
> >
>
>
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