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Hello,

At about $20 for a five gallon pail, Shell Diala transformer oil (mineral
oil with additives), is the best way to go, and cheaper than the $30 for
the linseed oil. Yes you do need organic material, like cotton, to promote
spontaneous combustion. I'm not sure of how well the mylar would work,
Pollypropylene and Pollyethylene are the best dialectrics to use.

Regards,

David Trimmell

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>In a message dated 5/29/1999 1:17:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
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>From: BillEaver-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
>Subject: Linseed Oil
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>A very nice way of saving lives from heavy burns and electrocution you folks 
>have here at this "ring" . My hat is off to you people...For a long time now 
>I have been reading many posts from the other experimenters trying to get the 
>info I need so as to not waste time asking a question that was answered 
>already. Well I have not seen
>any other zany person making a poly cap out of old aircraft blue prints (made 
>of some tuff type of plasic that they call "mylars") and use linseed oil as 
>the air barrier that I could buy on sale  5gal for $30.00. . Now...the reason 
>I ask is my life...I have found that linseed oil is a sure fire way to set 
>your garage on fire if you leave it on a rag... in fact on T.V. they show a 
>lady soak a rag in linseed oil, wrap it in a foil ball,
>put it in a foam cooler and 12 minutes later the thing bursts into 
>flame...spontaneous
>combustion in a bad sort of way...Now at my work they use linseed oil to coat 
>the inside of pipe type structures on aircraft of every kind so it won't 
>corrode. My guess
>is that if there is no porous matter to feed the oxygen to it your not going 
>to flame-on. The oil container/cap is a home made fiberglass box with a 1/2 
>inch glass plate for the bottom. So that is my question,  can I make a cap 
>without making a cap/bomb ? I looked up linseed oil in the dielectric 
>constant table and it says 3.2-3.5
>Thanks for any help...
>Denis Despins   KC6TRW
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