[Boatanchors] Cantenna contents

[Glen Zook]

Go by your local electric company service center. 
Usually they will give you a gallon of transformer oil
(no charge).  Frankly, it costs more to collect a few
dollars from you to pay for the oil (what it costs to
handle the paperwork for selling it).

As such, the people at the service center will usually
just give you a gallon.  Take the cantenna with you so
that they can just transfer the oil directly from the
storage tank without needing anything to carry to oil
from the service center to your shack.

Unfortunately, my particular cantenna has the PCB type
of transformer oil.  However, unless you are thinking
of drinking the oil it is basically harmless.  I
actually obtained the cantenna from an amateur who is
a hazardous material "expert"!  He admitted that
getting rid of the PCB oil involves more risk that
just keeping the cantenna sealed.

Glen, K9STH


--- Revcom Electronics <revcom at wbsnet.org> wrote:

They used -transformer- oil, you can get some from
power company boys.  They have it in their warehouses
and it is NOT -PCB- anymore.  Cheeper than Olive oil
and not (at least not at ham shack tempertures)
flammable.









Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com

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