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St. Louis - General Office February It, 1907 AROCLOR 1242 - ICAR, ITALY Your* 2/7/t7 Colin K. Coleman - KTJABGN tear Colin* H. S. Bergen - HLERG G. I . Buchanan II. Cards i - HCARD Mm, Cstses - 2 CkUL G. E. Moody - SECOND ST FEET P. E. lie isle r - PKE1S Dr. R.H. Munch - SECOND STFEE7 Dr. W. R, Richai d - V- RICH David Wood - BRUSSELS Congratulation* on satisfying ICAJR oa the quality of MCL Aroclor 2242 in competition with Bayer, and Prode lee. 1 share your intrigue about what did get u* "over the hump" at ICAR. If putting Fuller's earth into the druins was the effective expedient, we too would like to know the results of ICAR's findings and how they compared against your values when ths material was shipped. In an effort to placate a customer in Mexico we also made a shipment with earth in the drums of Aroclor 1242. On probing our Mexican representative for the customer's reaction, I got a teletype reply stating, "You might as well forget the earth, nothing was accomplisued". Pursual of this unsatisfactory response resulted in a wire from ear representative's manager stating, "The Vie vie aa go-go girls got to our man and his services at Monsanto had to be terminated". However, persistence is a virtue and later i learned that our representative had indeed been right, bat for the wrong reasons. Owen DoLin, our Chief Chemist at Anniston, was returning from a trip to South America, and X asked him to stop at Mexico City, at our expense, to further probe what good the earth in the drums did. Doiia accompanied the customer's Chief Chemist to sample a drum of Aroclor 1242. On noticing that the sample waa taken directly out of the drum, allowing the material to flow across a portion of the lid, contacting the paint and exterior of the drum, oar Chief Chemist also advised to, "Forget about it", la fact, the two experimental drums containing earth had already teen used and samples were not available. Dolin'* report discussed the customer's poor testing techniques, it reiterated that the customer's Chief Chemist had decided that his company should stick with Aroclor 1254 because this makes for a ranch simpler life than whs a using 1242, However, General Electric licensed these people to make Aroclor 1242 capacitors containing Pyranol 12, which makes life still more complex. 1 had discussed this situation with G.E. and knew that G. E. told these Mexican people to proceed to use Anniston's Aroclor 1242 or get out of the business. DSW 200844 STLCOPCB4058908 The second paragraph of /our re^ly to David strikes me as oei_ig precious. Little would 1 dream that the reported superior power factor of Bayer's Clophcn A-30 over our Aroclor leL'tZ, regards Layer's product developing an improved power factor at elevated temperature, may well have been postulated as a result of iCAK's technologist "playing" with Bayer's material in. a moisture laden state. V. shall be forever grateful for this concept as now we can easily surpass Bayer's quality by the simple expedient of dumping water into our material! More seriously, in light of our next Arodor quality improvement meeting set for May in St. Louie, has hi CL accomplished reliable and reproducible steps for improved power factor and resistivity of Aroclor 1242. as roads, and as packaged in drums and as delivered to fax away customsrs? This will be up for discussion. While we need to improve, we also needs be realistic. Best regards. , /ecd P. G. Eeoigaus DSW 200845 STLCOPCB4058909