Re: NST Depotting Experience +

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Original poster: "Krohns" <2halice@xxxxxxx>

I have access to a large pile of relatively new defective FranceFormers that
have the ground fault circuitry.  Sounds like I should be able to remove the
ground fault junk and the transformers would probably work fine again.  Am I
thinking correctly?

Hal from Tucson


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Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: NST Depotting Experience +


> Original poster: bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Hi Gary,
>
> Yes, I mentioned that in the write up of the experience. But, my decision
> to repot was more for the experience (since I hadn't tried it before).
>
> Take care,
> Bart
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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
>  >
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>  >  >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
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