01-09-2021, 01:36 PM
Mike
This can be done without even dirtying your hands and in a matter of minutes. It is described there in sticky articles.
Steve made tools that help though when I wrote it these tools were not available yet.
Sometimes there are especially stubborn ones, particularly the later dates, like end of 30s and 40s where the vial are flooded, but this is rare.
Typically if there is an access on the left and right and you could warm it up in citu without burning things around, which most often is the case, after severing the wires in the eyelets the tar block can be simply pushed out with a blunt rod like an Allen wrench of a diameter that fits through an eyelet.
And for melting things out, I take it, the capacitor has to be disconnected. While I usually do not have to disconnect anything at all.
This can be done without even dirtying your hands and in a matter of minutes. It is described there in sticky articles.
Steve made tools that help though when I wrote it these tools were not available yet.
Sometimes there are especially stubborn ones, particularly the later dates, like end of 30s and 40s where the vial are flooded, but this is rare.
Typically if there is an access on the left and right and you could warm it up in citu without burning things around, which most often is the case, after severing the wires in the eyelets the tar block can be simply pushed out with a blunt rod like an Allen wrench of a diameter that fits through an eyelet.
And for melting things out, I take it, the capacitor has to be disconnected. While I usually do not have to disconnect anything at all.
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
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