Re: vaseline

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Original poster: "uk-teslacoil.co.uk by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <duncanr-at-uk-teslacoil.co.uk>

Dear Justin

I strongly advise you not to use vaseline in your transformer, Valseline is
a petroleum jelly(mixture of wax and oil) if the mixture gets too hot the
components will seperate out or flash if their is a spark. Try to get hold
of some transformer oil, if you are in the UK I can source some for you.

Kind regards
Duncan Railton
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Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: vaseline


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