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    I've never seen ones with coils that slide off that easy but you get the point. if those are pcb's though which if theres oil your's probably are, since they were made before pcb's became illegal you need to do more to clean it up. like find what ever chemical the EPA wants you to use and soak everything in it after draining. then drain again. and probably do that 2 or three times using at least two different barrels. one for pcb, the other for chemical mess. gigantic pain in the ****. If your transformers were made after a certain date the oil is probably mineral oil or some or of silicon. i forget the date off hand but i think its somewhere in the 70's or 80's they made the switch over.


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