I don't know how to tell either as I have never had the two side by
side to compare. Someone mentioned in an earlier post that mineral
oil was selling for around $20/gallon in pharmaceutical quantities. In
that price range it doesn't seem that there would be much advantage
to substituting it for the transformer oil.
73 de Mike, W4EF...............................
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Watts" <wy6k@yahoo.com>
To: "Mike" <W4EF@dellroy.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Oil for dummy load
>
> Interesting. Maybe they have changed over to the transformer oil. I
bought two cantennas and
> they both came in the box with a jug of oil that was labeled as mineral
oil. I wouldn't know how
> to tell the two oils apart by looking at them.
>
> Michael WY6K
> --- Mike <W4EF@dellroy.com> wrote:
> > Then I guess they are lying then. I own two dummy loads here. The
> > second one came from MFJ in a box with a gallon of that same industrial
> > transformer oil.
> >
> > 73 de Mike, W4EF...................................................
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Watts" <wy6k@yahoo.com>
> > To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 8:05 PM
> > Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Oil for dummy load
> >
> >
> > >
> > > You can pop popcorn in the corn oil too!
> > >
> > > MFJ may sell transformer oil, but they use mineral oil in their dummy
> > load!
> > >
> > > Michael
> > > --- Jeff Battin <jbattin@starband.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Plain old corn oil works fine in mine.
> > > >
> > > > Jeff - Ko7p
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-towertalk@contesting.com
> > > > [mailto:owner-towertalk@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Mike
> > > > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 7:46 PM
> > > > To: george.shaw@ukf.net; towertalk@contesting.com
> > > > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Oil for dummy load
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > MFJ sells industrial grade transformer oil by the gallon. Its a bit
> > pricey
> > > > ($24.95/gallon), but has better heat transfer than mineral oil. I
bought
> > > > a gallon to fill an old heath cantenna that I picked up on the used
> > > > market.
> > > >
> > > > 73 de Mike, W4EF.........
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "George Shaw" <george.shaw@ukf.net>
> > > > To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> > > > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:57 AM
> > > > Subject: [TowerTalk] Oil for dummy load
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > What type/grade of oil can be used for a dummy load?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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