Re: NST Life Expectancy

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Original poster: "Stephen Conner by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <steve-at-scopeboy-dot-com>

At 19:30 13/06/03 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>
>
>When I was big into burning out neon sign transformers, I found that the old
>tar filled ones seemed to be rougher and tougher than some of the newer
>epoxied units.

I had an epoxy filled "Tunewell" brand NST. It lasted about 5 minutes of 
runtime before shorting out. I tried to depot it but the epoxy was rock 
hard and I couldn't get it off. I tried chisels, saws, screwdrivers, and a 
drill, with no success. In the end I just got fed up and decided to take it 
out to the yard and pulverise it with a sledgehammer. Little shards of 
epoxy went everywhere and nearly took my eye out :( So I would vote for the 
tar-filled type of NST too.

Steve C.