Re: NST Depotting Experience +

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Original poster: "Bob (R.A.) Jones" <a1accounting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I second Dr's advice. Don't use gasoline.
A friend of mine was recently burned when leaking gasoline, from the car he
was working on, ignited.
He did not receive serious burns but he was air lifted to hospitable and
then was sent a bill for $18,000 for the trip.
Ouch! painful and expensive.

Robert (R. A.) Jones
A1 Accounting, Inc., Fl
407 649 6400
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Subject: Re: NST Depotting Experience +


> Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Step one is put the assembly in a freezer and leave overnight.  When
> frozen some of the larger "chunks" will easily break off when wacked
> with a hammer.
>
> Step two is using the heat from a BBQ grill to melt away the smaller
> pieces of tar.  Outdoors of course!
>
> The solution to the $100 tar cleaner is to use a good substitute ---
> kerosine!  It works great to remove the final traces.  Due to it's
> inflammable nature a lot of "common sense" needs to be applied during
> this step but it does work excellent.  Never use gasoline due to it's
> liquid-vapor properties.  Kerosine does not have these problems
> unless excessive high heat, ie, 95-110 degrees.
>
> Dr. Resonance
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> >Most that i've come across with gfi are potted in epoxy, and the
> >chemicals that are able to remove that are near $100 a gallon (which
> >would probably remove the enamel off the magnet wire too). If you
> >can remove that without destroying the transformer, let us know the
> >secret, I've pretty much given up on that idea.
> >
> >Mike
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> >To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 2:00 PM
> >Subject: 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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> >>To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 4:18 PM
> >>Subject: Re: NST Depotting Experience +
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> >>
> >> > Original poster: bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> >
> >> > 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
> >> >
> >> >  > 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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> >> >  > -----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.
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> >> >  >  >Take care,
> >> >  >  >Bart
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