Re: flashover repair ?

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Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

Yours may be worse than mine, but mine also happened
on the back so I didn't see it at first. I just
cleaned it up real good with acetone and recoated.

http://www.hot-streamer-dot-com/adam/burnt_secondary.jpg

Adam

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: biomed-at-miseri.winnipeg.mb.ca
 >
 > I know this has been covered before but,
 >
 > Last week I was running my SSTC at full 140VAC input
 > and I flashed over my
 > coils.  I didn't see it happen, it was directly
 > behind the coils so it
 > burned in pretty good before I smelled smoke.
 >
 > The secondary I'm hoping to fix.  Have other people
 > had success doing this?
 >
 > My secondary was coated with 13 layers of
 > polyuthethane.  I was able to
 > sand away the large burnt area (1 1/2 * 1/2 inch)
 > but I'm not sure if I got
 > all of it.  There is a  heat patterns in the poly,
 > maybe the poly is
 > damaged beyond hope, I can see rings in it around
 > the flashover aread.
 > What should I do?
 >
 > Any suggestions?    so far I've done some sanding.
 >
 > Shaun Epp
 >
 >