[ARC5] [Boatanchors] Coils and the winding thereof

[Michael Tauson]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Edward Swynar<gswynar at durham.net> wrote:
> Speaking of smells rekindling old memories...

Kindling ... smoke ... :-)

> Years ago I used to coat my coils with commercially-available dope. Fast
> forward to a few years ago: my wife is applying clear nail polish to the
> talons on the ends of her fingers...

> Voila! That smell! Now I remember---it's EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE OLD COIL
> DOPE I USED TO USE!!!

Nail polish is liquid acetate - or it was.  I'm told some if not all
is liquid teflon now.  The current version of Q Dope is liquid
polystyrene but I'm not sure that existed then so could well have been
liquid acetate which definitely would have been available.

You're right about the smell, though.  It's a dead ringer.  I wonder
if that's close enough to being on the numbers to qualify.  :-)

Thank you!

Best regards,

Michael, WH7HG
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