[TheForge] A different needle question

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

PCB transformer had a really high flash point. The old blacksmith Pete Paulson pointed that out to me long ago.
He's long since dead and i have his anvil now. The PCB oil was very effective quench oil and i used it for years
thereafter. It was thought to be pretty much inert back then.
Mmmmm...Wrong!

On Oct 25, 2013, at 7:14 PM, Rob Fertner wrote:

The museum shop had a lidded container filled with motor oil, 30W I think.
This has a lower flash point than vegetable oil.

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Needless to say, different oils have different flash points, but close
enough for most applications.