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Old 23rd Feb 2021, 7:02 pm   #2
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Default Re: Polycon from Fegusson failed

I've seen that sort of failure where someone has given a Polyvaricon 'a good squirt of switch-cleaner' then twiddled it.

The surface-tension of any liquid introduced between the plates and the interleaved dielectric-laminations can make them cling-together enough to tear the dielectric-sheets from their mountings.
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