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Re: Kitchen oven
Subject: Re: Kitchen oven
Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 08:34:57 -0700
From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com>
Organization: Stoneridge Engineering
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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>
> Subject: Kitchen oven
> Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 19:18:28 -0700
> From: Gary Weaver <gweaver-at-earthlink-dot-net>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>
> I have found by putting a neon transformer in the kitchen oven and
> melting the tar it brings bad neons back to life. It removes
> the carbon tracks that short the neons out and it removes the cracks in
> the tar.
>
<SNIP>
> Looks like if the tar in a neon can be melted in the case the neon will
> come back to life again. Naturally this will not work on a
> secondary coil that is fried. But it has works 5 out of 6 times on
> neons that probably shorted out from carbon tracking.
>
> Gary Weaver
Gary,
My wife wouldn't let me try this! :^) I did try putting one in my
Webber, but I couldn't control the temperature very well for a long
enough time.
Sounds like you've discovered a potential time saver - just cook 'em for
a while and see if they fix themselves! If not... pitch 'em unless you
want to use the cores or primary for something else.
Safe coilin' to you!
-- Bert --