Re: Capacitors

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi,

Mineral oil is almost always used (unless they use caster oil or transformer
oil).  I don't know why you would want to use wax since is shrinks and cracks
while cooling and breaks easily.

Cheers,

        Terry

At 12:30 PM 12/30/2001 -0500, you wrote: 
>
>  I would like to make a polyethelene stacked capacitor and was wondering if I
> could substitute the mineral oil for melted wax.