[time-nuts] Thermal insulation choice?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4F074DD9.5070505 at febo.com>, John Ackermann N8UR writes:

>I am looking for a readily available (from Home Depot or other local 
>source) insulating material to use in a chassis that's housing a 
>sensitive OCXO.  My goal is just to slow down any external thermal 
>transients so the oven loop has time to react gracefully.

>I'm thinking of something in sheet form that I could glue to the inside 
>bottom and side of the metal chassis.  The trimmed sheet sizes will each 
>probably end up being around 4 x 8 inches.

Buy a foam camping-matress of the kind you put under your sleeping bag ?

They're cheap, and usually impregnated against anything that might
conceiveably try to eat them.


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