Envelope-to: dave@picks.force9.co.uk Delivery-date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:23:42 +0000 Received: by ptb-mxcore01.plus.net with spam-scanned (PlusNet MXCore v2.00) id 1F4qbs-0004oY-RL for dave@picks.force9.co.uk; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:23:42 +0000 Received: from post.thorcom.com ([193.82.116.20]) by ptb-mxcore01.plus.net with esmtp (PlusNet MXCore v2.00) id 1F4qbs-0004mn-N6 for dave@picks.force9.co.uk; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:23:40 +0000 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1F4qbT-0000ae-H8 for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:23:15 +0000 Received: from [193.82.59.130] (helo=relay2.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1F4qbT-0000aV-3l for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:23:15 +0000 Received: from smtp-out1.hurontel.on.ca ([216.46.129.246]) by relay2.thorcom.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1F4rK1-0007Vz-WD for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 03:09:19 +0000 Received: from mail.hurontel.on.ca (mail.hurontel.on.ca [216.46.129.11]) by smtp-out1.hurontel.on.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k132MPUV015395 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 21:22:25 -0500 Received: from server (dial-26.hurontel.on.ca [216.46.128.26]) by mail.hurontel.on.ca (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with SMTP id k132Me5f008305 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 21:22:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <01e601c62868$87ee77a0$0b01a8c0@server> From: "J. B. Weazle McCreath" To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org References: <020220062310.23359.43E2915A00063CBB00005B3F22007358340B97010D0A020E06979D0E03@comcast.net> <002401c6285d$99138260$67b0fea9@lark> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 02:21:21 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Subject: Re: LF: Re: Keeping the smoke in Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rs_out_1@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PN-SpamFiltered: by PlusNet MXCore (v2.00) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Melia" To: Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:54 AM Subject: Re: LF: Re: Keeping the smoke in > Hi Warren, an excursion to high temperature should not affect the ferrite as > this is sintered at quite high temperatures to make the ring. What might > suffer is the epoxy (usually) coating which may burn up and created a lossy > shorted turn (guess, I have no experience of this) A quick solution might be > to bung it in a beaker of cooking oil! That will act as insulation as well!! > Just think you could be the first station with an oil cooled antenna > transformer !! > > Cheers de Alan G3NYK Warren, Alan, LFers, >From my own experience I wouldn't recommend cooking oil, as it will go rancid on you in short order, and does it ever stink! I've had good luck using mineral oil sold as a cattle laxative at any farm supply outlet like TSC Stores, Co-op, etc. 73, J.B., VE3EAR - VE3WZL Solar and wind powered EN93dr