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Heatercathodeshort · 24th Jan 2018, 10:17 am

I can assure you I was a horrible child!

I make it sound easy but believe me it is a dirty, time consuming job. Nothing can be overlooked or rushed. It would soon bounce back if you let standards slip.

This was when the transformers were probably less than ten years old. 60 years on they are corroded, damp, mildew and rotten. I'm afraid most reinsulating jobs are only a temporary cure but certainly sufficient to get the timebase running to evaluate etc.

Rewinding specialist transformers today is a very difficult task. Coil formers, wire, insulating materials are not easy to source and the actual process is incredibly time consuming.

The cost of professionally rewinding a transformer must be one of the few true value for money deals of the day.
Look at it this way. Considerably less than two tanks of diesel in my Ford Ranger, ten packets of fags that won't last a week, A few bottles of 'designer' wine, and last but not least, one daily cup of coffee for just five weeks at £3 a cup and to say nothing of that must have horror, the blueberry muffin..

Regards, John.

24th Jan 2018, 10:17 am	#32
Heatercathodeshort Dekatron Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Warnham, West Sussex. 10 miles south of DORKING. Posts: 9,147	Re: Dismantling LOPT's I can assure you I was a horrible child! I make it sound easy but believe me it is a dirty, time consuming job. Nothing can be overlooked or rushed. It would soon bounce back if you let standards slip. This was when the transformers were probably less than ten years old. 60 years on they are corroded, damp, mildew and rotten. I'm afraid most reinsulating jobs are only a temporary cure but certainly sufficient to get the timebase running to evaluate etc. Rewinding specialist transformers today is a very difficult task. Coil formers, wire, insulating materials are not easy to source and the actual process is incredibly time consuming. The cost of professionally rewinding a transformer must be one of the few true value for money deals of the day. Look at it this way. Considerably less than two tanks of diesel in my Ford Ranger, ten packets of fags that won't last a week, A few bottles of 'designer' wine, and last but not least, one daily cup of coffee for just five weeks at £3 a cup and to say nothing of that must have horror, the blueberry muffin.. Regards, John.