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What's With the PARAFFIN WAX - Model 70?
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02-23-2011, 10:18 PM
I doubt if they used paraffin wax to seal a transformer, the melting temperature is too low and paraffin wax is too brittle, more then likely it's some sort of organic wax like bees wax or whatever they sealed paper capacitors with back in the day.
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