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Interesting idea, thanks for sharing. I did look it up, never heard of this stuff. I wonder how thick of a coating would be required? Should a guy peel off the loose stuff, then coat the coil, or maybe dip it ?
I do have a Chris Craft Challenger that has Bendix coils in it, both were cracked pretty badly. Just for the heck of it, I tested them both on the Stevens machine, expecting them to fail the leakage test.. much to my suprise, they passed the primary and secondary resistance tests, coil power test, and the leakage test ! At the time I grabbed a tube of 3M 5200 and coated them up good, left them dry then put them back in. The motor ran great ! Since then the Bendix coils i’ve ran into are crumbling and falling apart, so I just replaced them. Problem is, they are expensive. It would be nice to be able to reseal the insulation and reuse them, providing the windings are good. I’ve seen it done to OMC universal coils using fiberglass resin, and it worked well. How long will it last? Who Knows..