Mineral Oil

[GBrown]

Now that's one thing that didn't even enter my mind, WATTAGE. Yeah, I can
see 1KW bringing the cooking oil to a boil, hehehehehehe. Next time I fire
up the old homebrew amp, I will throw a few fries into the mix.
OK, on the serious side. Another answer was using none detergent motor oil.
How about a #13 hydraulic oil, would that work?
Regards,
Gary...WZ1M
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Coleman" <aa4lr at ARRL.NET>
To: <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: Mineral Oil


> On Dec 16, 2005, at 9:55 PM, Floyd Winters wrote:
>
> > Mineral oil is another bad choice.  Boiling point is to low to be
> > safely
> > used in a confined space.
>
> Depends. If you want to use your cantenna to load up a 200 watt rig,
> the mineral oil will do nicely. If you want to use it as a load for a
> 1500 watt output amplifier, even transformer oil may not be enough.
> Depends on how long you keep the key down.
>
>
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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