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Re: Leaky Pig

Original poster: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: FIFTYGUY@xxxxxxx

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> will slow the escape of oil to something tolerable. At the moment, I've got
> a pool 3 feet by 1 foot soaking into the cement under the pig.
>      Oil smells like Silly Putty. Is it silicone based?

This is interesting. Silicone oils will crawl up and over any surface they
touch. This might explain how the entire inside was coated. I don't know
about silly putty, but the dielectric silicone oil I've worked with has a
strange musty smell, and creeps up wires, and coats everything it touches.
Silicone stuff is dense, and will probably sink in water, vs. make a slick
like conventional oils on water.

KEN