RE: Drying tranny oil - where did the tranny oil come from in the first place....

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Original poster: "Ben McMillen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Fear not... I did that long before considering even getting

these things.. 

The name plate reads "Kilovolt Corporation".. I was told
that
this manufacturer didn't use PCB's and that the trannies I
had
found were clean.. 

There's so much because each of the transformer cases held
about 
74 gallons, and put out 50KV -at- ~50mA.. unfortunately I
don't
have the cores... someone else got to them before I could..

(altho.. he doesen't know that you need the oil to run
them)
;)

Coiling In Pittsbrugh
Ben McMillen

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "David Halliday by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dh-at-synthstuff-dot-com>
> 
> I saw a couple of answers here and I would hate to throw
> a wet blanket on
> this but is there some provenance to the oil - a
> certification that it is
> not PCB contaminated?
> 
> Poly Chlorinated Biphenyl contaminated oil is death (
> instant liver cancer )
> and it is very expensive to get rid of legally in the
> U.S. - someone who was
> "giving away" something may be trying to get out from
> underneath these
> expenses by shifting the problem to someone else.  If you
> know who the
> source was, ask them for an MSDS - this is a Material
> Safety Data Sheet and
> they are required to keep them on hand for everything
> they have. Federal Law
> required.  This is serious s*&^
> 
> If it turns out to be pure Mineral oil or something like
> that, fine but for
> your own sake, drill these people, make absolutely sure
> that you know where
> this stuff came from.
> 
> 
> Also, the issue here is that PCBs made *excellent*
> transformer oil - good
> heat-sink characteristics, good insulator, didn't break
> down with heat or
> time.  Only issue was a major incidence of Cancer with
> people who were
> exposed to it...
> 
> 
> 
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
> -> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:17 PM
> -> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> -> Subject: Drying tranny oil
> ->
> ->
> -> Original poster: "Ben McMillen by way of Terry Fritz
> -> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>
> ->
> ->
> -> Hi all,
> ->   I recently acquired 110 gallons of transformer oil..
> -> Unfortunately, when
> -> I got it I had to put it into a 55 gal drum that had
> some water in it
> -> (Bad.. I know.. but it was drain it or loose the free
> oil)
> -> Is there any way
> -> to dry the oil (get the water out)? I was wondering if
> you
> -> could maybe put
> -> the drum under a vacuum.. Also, the oil had alot of
> crud
> -> (corrosion from
> -> the tanks it was in).. can this be easily filtered
> out? I
> -> don't want to use
> -> the oil and then have problems with conductive stuff
> floating around
> -> inside.. ;)
> ->
> -> Coiling In Pittsburgh
> -> Ben McMillen
> ->
> ->
> ->
> ->
> 
> 
> 

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