[QuadList] Toluene

[Pat Shevlin]

That's why I left the Antenna business back in the late 70s.  At night I
use to hold the end of a florescent light bulb in my hand while climbing
the tower to locate a defective choke joint in the waveguide that was
causing my swr to go sky-high raising the body current temperature of the
klystron.  The bulb would fire when I reached the defective waveguide
joint.  For some reason it use to always be the highest joint up the
tower.....

Pat




> In a message dated 1/15/2010 2:17:08 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> cwreti at gmail.com writes:
>
>> We smart-a** kid engineers at Wayne State Univ. TV in Detroit made that
>> same fun discovery, plus, taking the gooey gelled cup outside and
>> lighting
>> it made a small, intense fire, with thick black smoke, probably
>> something
>> like napalm. I hope that the daily handling of xylene way back then did
>> not
>> initiate some dormant process that lies in wait to get me!
>>
>>
>> Chuck Reti
>>  WV8A
>>  Detroit MI
>>
>> On Jan 15, 2010, at Jan 15 3:05 PM, C. Park Seward wrote:
>>
>> >> Also, don't make the mistake I made once. I poured a little in a
>>> plastic cup. It didn't take long for it to melt the bottom of the cup!
>>> Handy if
>>> you want a tube and not a cup
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> =
>>
>>
>
> In regard to the use of Zylene and Ampex (or similar) types of head
> cleaner, I have heard a disturbing amount of stories here (in LA) recently
> about
> degenerative illnesses and even premature deaths that somehow seem
> strangely
> coincidental when one considers that those individuals were tape room
> employees of the 50's through 80's, using head cleaner several times a
> day. I don't
> believe that there is any scientific study in these exact geographical
> locations, but someone might someday take a close look at the employee
> records
> and their later years in life to draw any sort of conclusions. I remember
> back in the 70's of specific warnings from co-workers about the red cans
> of
> Ampex head cleaner.
>
> I think the same sort of statistical study could be applied (if not
> already) to Mt. Wilson engineers who were bombarded daily with RF from
> that highly
> congested area. The stories I've heard are not pretty.
>
> David Crosthwait
>
> DC Video
> Archived Media Transfer & Re-mastering Services
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