Re: Leaky Pig

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Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Ken,

If the oil is silicone based, I wonder if it could just be replaced with
mineral oil (with an appropriate rinsing of course)

Gerry R.


> Original poster: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Tesla list wrote:
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>  > 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?
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> 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.
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> KEN
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