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Thu, 28 Apr 2005 [kwantam@positron ~]$ set -o vi [ permalink | 4 comments ] ...er, actually, thermal strippers. Recently Mike, Ion, and I were sitting around talking about this and that when Ion provided a nugget that I just had to pass along to all y'all. Ion is from Romania; before he came to the US he was a professor of EE. He's one smart dude, and he's got tons of stories and some damn good interview questions tucked into his sleeves. During our conversation yesterday, we somehow strayed onto the topic of winding inductors. One thing led to another, and I was reminiscing about burning the shit out of my hands trying to get the shellack off of Litz wire. Ion said to me, "well, of course, you just use Aspirin, right?" Turns out, if you put the Litz on top of an Aspirin tablet (no fancy enteric coating or any of that shit) and heat it with a soldering iron, the salicylic acid reacts with the insulation and it's gone in no time. Bad ass. [ permalink | 2 comments ] |
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