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Re: Newspaper Aluminum Sheets




    I was building a voltage doubler.

James.

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Date: Saturday, October 02, 1999 4:49 AM
Subject: RE: Newspaper Aluminum Sheets


>Original Poster: "Basura, Brian" <brian.basura-at-unistudios-dot-com>
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>Have you actually used this capacitor in Tesla Coil service?
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>Brian Basura
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>Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 4:38 PM
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>Subject: Re: Newspaper Aluminum Sheets
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>Original Poster: "The Flavored Coffee Guy" <elgersmad-at-msn-dot-com>
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>Shoot, man, I made a wooden box with one crank on a dowel, and four dowels
>for holding foil, or generic wax paper.  This is how I had spacers set up
to
>make a capacitor on the rack that held only the four dowels for dispensing.
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> |||-------------|    1
> ||-------------||    2
> |-------------|||    3
> ||-------------||    4
>-|--------------|-|~    5
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>1.    Is foil.
>2.    Is Waxpaper.
>3.    Is foil.
>4.    Is Waxpaper.
>5.    Is the Crank.
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>    All of the foil, and waxpaper were equally long roles in inches, and
>where the foil went past the waxpaper was used at the ends for electrical
>contact.
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>    Now, my take up reel, or crank was centered like the waxpaper but, as
>much wider as the overlap of the aluminum foil, and with a 1/4 inch on
>either side it ain't bad.  The thing that I needed was a 6th roller U
bolted
>to a couple of rat traps for spring to keep the role flat on the take up
>reel with the crank.
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>   /-----------/
>-|-------------|-|~
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>    I found that rubbing the layers can help square them when you start
>cranking but, at then turn that thing down tight because, the closer the
two
>capacitor plates are and the less air there is between them, the high the
>value of capacitance.  I suppose that you could use springs your own way,
or
>buy a kit filled with all sorts of springs from your local mega hardware
>store because, I have see those bulk.  Then two door hinges for the spring
>loaded pinch roller that keeps you take up reel tight.
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>    The more exact you are at measuring wood, and the better you are at
>making this to the exact measurements of the rolls of aluminum, and
>waxpaper, or possibly a adjustable stock for the length of rolls on this
>thing, the better it works.  Mine was all wood and screws, sand coat, hard
>coat, gloss coat, and sanded with 3 desending grades of sand paper from 60,
>100, 200,  then the sand coat, 400 wet and dry, hard coat then sanded it
>with 600 grit, then the glossy coat.  It looked like a piece of furniture
>for making two ply paper towels into 8 ply super towels.  But, the shinny
>surface allows for some slippage, and provides a fairly constant, and equal
>level of friction on each role.  Leave the dowel with the crank on it, in
>the middle of finished role, and cut off the ends with the handle, and the
>extended part of the rollers pin that was used to allow it to rotate.    I
>used 1 inch diameter dowels, which are just about twice as big around as
>broomsticks.  I used 1X1s as a screw base to hold my corners together as a
>frame for the half inch plywood.  The edges were left fairly rough but, I
>painted em' anyway.  At all of the friction points that count, use only a
>sanding block to keep everything as square as possible.
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>James.
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>>Original Poster: Clifford D Fahrer <cfahrer-at-in-touch-dot-net>
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>>Has anyone used the thin aluminum sheets that newspapers use for page
>>print for flat plate capacitors.  The newspaper people dispose of the
>>sheets when they get old.  The sheets are the size of a sheet of
>>newspaper and ,(I think), are anodized where the print appears. I don't
>>know if this newsprint process changes the surface properties of the
>>sheets.
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>>If I can't get any answers from the list I will get a sheet and test.
>>They are FREE and seem to be the right size for flat plate capacitors.
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>>Coiling in SW Ohio------Cliff
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