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Old February 15th 10, 03:25 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors
Scott Dorsey Scott Dorsey is offline
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Default Home Made Coil Dope AKA Q-Dope

Avery Comarow wrote:
On Feb 13, 10:41=A0pm, "Richard Knoppow" wrote:
=A0 =A0 =A0At some time in the recent past there was a discussion
in this or the antique radio group about coil dope. As a
result I tried making some. ...What I did was to dissolve polyfoam shippi=

ng material
in a mixture of MEK and xylol. I chose these two solvents
because both were listed on the lable of some old commercial
coil dope.


Richard Knoppow


Proportions, please?


When I was a kid, we just added styrofoam to toluene until we got about the
right viscosity. I have coils that I varnished with that stuff thirty years
ago which are still just fine.
--scott

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