Re: vaseline

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Original poster: "Jonathan Peakall by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jpeakall-at-madlabs.info>

Justin,

I used Vaseline for insulation once. It worked fine, but the Vaseline
liquefied when the xfrmr was warm, and it was worse than oil to clean off
for repair. Overall, I didn't see any real benefit from it.

Regards,. Jonathan Peakall

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Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: vaseline


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Cydesho-at-aol-dot-com>
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> I'm not sure that flashover and arcing is gonna be a problem. I ran the
> transformer with no insulation whatsoever and I didnt have any problems.
It
> actually came from a custom built high voltage power supply, and wasnt
> submerged in oil of any kind. I would just feel better about putting it
under
> something, and I dont really wanna mess with oil cuz it can get really
messy.
> I'll just take my chances with vaseline, so if anyone could help me out
with
> where to find that much vasoline it would be really great.
>
>                                                  Justin
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