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"ham" wrote in message ... 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? 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. Ed WB6WSN |
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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. -- Then again, this is still an Internet where the appropriately named Domino server It's not appropriately named; it should be called Lotus House of Cards. -- Steve Sobol, in response to Alan Brown |
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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. -- Then again, this is still an Internet where the appropriately named Domino server It's not appropriately named; it should be called Lotus House of Cards. -- Steve Sobol, in response to Alan Brown |
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Yep, them PCB's are officially nasty little chemicals. ..... Ed 1: pour contents into empty coffee can 2: replace coffee can lid 3: gift wrap same 4: place on car rear seat, leave window down 5: go have a beer or three +/_ 45 minutes 6: go back to car, wipe seat where can was 7: go home or 7b: have another beer to celebrate empty rear seat Hazmat is easy !!! ~8^o EdZ(another Ed) |
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Yep, them PCB's are officially nasty little chemicals. ..... Ed 1: pour contents into empty coffee can 2: replace coffee can lid 3: gift wrap same 4: place on car rear seat, leave window down 5: go have a beer or three +/_ 45 minutes 6: go back to car, wipe seat where can was 7: go home or 7b: have another beer to celebrate empty rear seat Hazmat is easy !!! ~8^o EdZ(another Ed) |
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And as an added bonus, your HV rating has improved considerably.
Yep! I have not arced over in several years. 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. Back when I worked a lot of radar, countermeasures, and big RF stuff we would get a drench of Cooliol 50 or 75 cooling oil every once in a while. Clean up? we used trico or industrial freon. Am not sure of the results yet but the last time a UFO came close they did a U turn. EdZ |
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And as an added bonus, your HV rating has improved considerably.
Yep! I have not arced over in several years. 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. Back when I worked a lot of radar, countermeasures, and big RF stuff we would get a drench of Cooliol 50 or 75 cooling oil every once in a while. Clean up? we used trico or industrial freon. Am not sure of the results yet but the last time a UFO came close they did a U turn. EdZ |
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"Ed Zeranski" wrote in message ... And as an added bonus, your HV rating has improved considerably. Yep! I have not arced over in several years. 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. Back when I worked a lot of radar, countermeasures, and big RF stuff we would get a drench of Cooliol 50 or 75 cooling oil every once in a while. Clean up? we used trico or industrial freon. Am not sure of the results yet but the last time a UFO came close they did a U turn. EdZ Yep. they thought you was a marker beacon, till they got close enough to (one) eyeball you! Ed(P) |
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"Ed Zeranski" wrote in message ... And as an added bonus, your HV rating has improved considerably. Yep! I have not arced over in several years. 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. Back when I worked a lot of radar, countermeasures, and big RF stuff we would get a drench of Cooliol 50 or 75 cooling oil every once in a while. Clean up? we used trico or industrial freon. Am not sure of the results yet but the last time a UFO came close they did a U turn. EdZ Yep. they thought you was a marker beacon, till they got close enough to (one) eyeball you! Ed(P) |
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