[ARC5] Cleaning Capacitor Oil Leakage

[Richard Knoppow]

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From: <WA5CAB at cs.com>
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Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Cleaning Capacitor Oil Leakage


> Technically, the oil is not toxic.  Even if it does 
> contain PCB's, and most
> does not, you will not curl up and die within a few 
> minutes to a few hours
> of getting a little of it on your hands.
>
> As for the dark pasty potting compound, generically it is 
> a tar.  As in tar
> and feather.
>

     I must have curled up for some other reason then, 
perhaps because I have a cold. Anyway I am straightened out 
again.  I was not afraid it would kill me instantly but have 
no desire to expose myself any more than avoidable to 
carcinogens.  Hard to do since the world is full of them.
     The potting compound I melted out of some other bathtub 
caps sure looks like asphalt and even has that sort of odor. 
Similar stuff leaks out of overheated transformers.
     Anyway, thank you for the reassurance from all the 
sensible people on the list.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com