Around 1957 I went to the Southern California Edison yard in the industrial area
of Santa Barbara.

In the office I paid a couple a dollar or so for a gallon of transformer oil and
took my gallon can and followed one of the men outside to a 55 gallon drum. The
whole area was oily, dirty and looked like it'd been used for years. Some areas
of the ground looked as though they'd been paved with oil. We opened the valve
on the can and filled the can. Then we both wiped the spills and splashes on
our hands and the drips on the can off using a very oily rag.

When I got back to my 1947 Chevy I put it on an old rag in the trunk of the car
in a cardboard box so it wouldn't tip over. I wiped my oily shoes on the dirt
at the edge of the road so I wouldn't get too much oil on the rubber floor mats.

When I got home I poured the oil into the Heathkit Cantenna can and had some
left over. A few years later I poured out the remnants from the can onto the
ground in the area where our oil drain pans were inverted to get the gunk out of
them and threw the can in the garbage.

In following years I put the dummy load on the floor under the operating desk in
a pie tin to keep any seepage from getting on the carpet and floor. I wiped it
off several times over the years with paper towels.

Since all my fingers have fallen off - I'm typing with my toes - and now need to
wear glasses and my eyesight isn't as good as it used to be.

Do you think this is a result of coming in contact with PCB?



Ed Price wrote:

" hillbilly3302" wrote in message
news:1066854521.103078@`ache3...
I have an old Heathkit Cantenna dummy load. how can I tell what its
filled
with, Transformer oil (pcb's) or Mineral oil... sounds silly but it
just
started leaking and I have oil all over the work bench... I went to a
paint
store and got another gallon can and that took care of the leak. hi , but
it was about half empty.

k5drc