[TheForge] Re: File Making, sniffing up wrought iron

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Years ago an old blacksmith told me how good that old transformer 
oil was a quench...Almost as good as whale oil, he said...high 
flash point and it's almost inert.
It did work well for some years for me....until i found out about 
PCBs.
Living there in the salt air, the transformers would rust through 
and blow out every 7 years or so. I had a well that drew a lot of 
surface water and the line of power poles went upstream. There 
was an oily sheen on the bath water and the tap water too.
A truly bad-a$$ quench...pf

Andy Gladish wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:47:19 -0700, David E. Smucker 
> <davesmucker at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> BE AWARE, that many older industrial transformer were filled with 
>> PCB's, not something you want to mess with.  Many have had the PCB's 
>> replaced and the units cleaned up but you have no way of knowing what 
>> you would get into in a scrap yard.  This is not a factor in dry 
>> transformers or motors.
> 
> How very cool that this thread has come full circle, back to "caution: 
> heating iron may be hazardous to your health"
> I'd include "keep out of reach of children" but the grandpas among us 
> might object
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