Re: Mineral Spirits

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• Subject: Re: Mineral Spirits
• From: Doug Brunner <dabrunner-at-earthlink-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:10:07 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

I'm not really sure about this, but I don't think mineral spirits is quite the
same as mineral oil, since it can dissolve hydrocarbon paints. I'm using
hydraulic
oil, which seems to work well in HV tests, but I haven't run it up to full
Tesla
power yet.

Tesla List wrote:

> Original Poster: ElectronX-at-aol-dot-com
>
> I've been looking around for mineral oil to build my poly plate cap, and I
> found that Home Depot sells mineral spirits.  They say it is the same as
plain
> mineral oil.  Will this work?
>
> Matt Behrend

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