Re: Home-brew Capacitors

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: Home-brew Capacitors
• From: ElectronX-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:32:20 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

In a message dated 12/16/98 8:17:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:

>    I had also better mention, the last 2 oil caps used corn oil as it will
not
>  warp the poly. like mineral oil will.

If mineral oil warps poly, why have I seen so many papers explaining that the
cap should be filled with it? Are there any other oils that are bad? What oils
with give a poly cap the longest life? I plan to build a vertical poly plate
cap soon, and I don't want to use the wrong materials.

Matt Behrend

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