Re: NST Depotting Experience +

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Original poster: gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Most of the time when you kill a neon it is just shorted through the 
tar.  Once you get an arc through the tar you have a perment carbon 
track for it to arc over and over every time you turn on the neon 
again.  Usually all that is needed is to melt the tar, stir the tar 
around a little bit, let it cool, and it will work fine again.   You 
can mix in 50% high voltage oil into the tar then pour it back into 
the metal neon case and let it cool.  The HV oil + tar is a big 
inprovement over just tar alone.

Gary Weaver




-----Original Message-----
>From: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: May 10, 2006 9:05 AM
>To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: NST Depotting Experience
>
>Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson" <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Hi All,
>
>I mentioned during a separate thread that I had killed my 12/60 NST.
>So, I went through a depotting experience (my first). I wrote up this
>experience. I thought those who are in the middle of such an
>experience or are thinking about it might enjoy this read.
>
>http://www.classictesla.com/photos/nstrepair/nstrepair.htm
>
>It really wasn't that bad of an experience and the results were 
well worth it.
>
>Take care,
>Bart
>
>