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Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012, 15:06:12 schrieb Dale: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012, 12:15:14 schrieb Dale: |
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> >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> >>> and since baby oil is so great for the job we use it as lubcritant and |
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> >>> for cooling in engines.... |
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> >> I was trying to overcome the problem that water causes things to short |
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> >> out when it leaks on a mobo, something mineral oil doesn't do according |
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> >> to what I have read. I never said it was the world's greatest heat |
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> >> conductor. |
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> > ever heard of 'transformer oil'? |
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> > for some reason or another they move away from mineral oil... |
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> I have heard of it. It appears that it is mineral oil also. |
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_oil |
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> "Transformer oil or insulating oil is usually a highly-refined mineral |
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> oilthat is stable at high temperatures and has excellent electrical |
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> insulating properties." |
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> I'm not saying that every single transformer out there has mineral oil |
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> in it but according to that, it is still in common use. Also, according |
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> to that it also does the job of removing the heat from the transformer |
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> too. If you want, watch this video. You can see how they are made from |
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> start to finish, including the mineral oil fill up. |
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUO3o5JTGhQ |
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and the oil is very toxic and as I wrote earlier mineral oil is replaced with |
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other coolants. For some very good reasons. |
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