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Re: capacitor




From: 	Norman F. Stanley[SMTP:nfs-at-midcoast-dot-com]
Sent: 	Sunday, September 07, 1997 10:12 PM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: capacitor

At 08:41 AM 9/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>From: 	Geoffrey Schecht[SMTP:geoffs-at-onr-dot-com]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, September 03, 1997 11:42 PM
>To: 	Tesla List
>Subject: 	Re: capacitor
>
>I've got a few Pyranols laying around. I don't think that they're dangerous
>unless they're leaking or unless you manage to blow their seals from
>overheating. Here in the US, anything with polychlorinated biphenol (PCB's)
>has to be disposed of as a hazardous material, at least legally. So, if I
>get a leaker, I just bag it in a trashcan liner and take it to work as an
>additional nuisance for the hazmat disposal crew. Fire Departments can
>handle hazmat disposal in most locales.
>
>Pyranols always seem to show up at hamfests and surplus stores. They also
>show up in junkyards (like in the big photoflash capacitors that certain
>photocopiers use. I found one a while back with a large hole in its side,
>the dielelctric had bled into the bottom of the copier's chassis. That's
>one I didn't touch. I guess that we're drinking it by now in our tapwater
>:(.
>
>If I lived near Rusty Duncan, I would have gladly taken those caps off of
>his hands. Those big guys are hard to find these days!
>
>Geoff

Uh, how far are you from me (midcoast Maine).  I have about 900 lb. of
those things that I'd like to get rid of.  Bought them years ago, back when
PCB was not a known problem.

Norm (getting desperate)