Ed Price wrote:

For a few years, I worked at a company which made a line of oil impregnated
paper dielectric capacitors. The impregnating vats were about 3 feet in
diameter and about 2 feet deep. Capacitors would be loaded on a rack, the
vat sealed, and the rack lowered into a pool of PCB (Arochlor). After about
a 24 hour cycle, the vat would be opened. Many times, a few capacitors would
have tumbled out of position, and you had to reach your arm down into the
Arochlor to unjam the rack and fish out the stray capacitors.

This was back in the days when PCB's were good, DDT was man's best friend,
dioxin hadn't been heard of and you could survive a nearby 10 megaton blast
by a quick duck & cover. Actually, I think bobbing for capacitors under
PCB's was what has protected me from any damage from high-power RF fields
all these years.

And as an added bonus, your HV rating has improved considerably.

I find myself wondering what might be the results of _my_ exposure
to all manner of industrial and laboratory chemicals over a lot of
years.

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