Re: fire conducts electricity?

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Original poster: "Vince D'Amore by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-teslafx-dot-com>

your lucky you didn't kill yourself doing that stunt.


At 11:31 AM 8/16/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><Beans45601-at-aol-dot-com>
>
>Okay, I was trying to light my blow torch (not like the blow torch that 
>had the
>tank of oxygen and take of fuel, just a little handheld one. Not sure if those
>are called blow torches also...) a couple of days ago. Well, I didn't want to
>use a match, they smell, and I didn't have a lighter. So, I decided to use my
>tesla coil (I am sure it was not the smartest thing to do). Anyway, I stood on
>a big plastic bucket to get my self off the ground, then turned on the gas and
>held it up to the tesla coil. Well, it light (big suprise) and I noticed
>something weird, the sparks from my tesla coil were jumping to the fire, 
>not to
>the tip of the blow torch, but the fire. And I was thoroughly amazed! Okay,
>what is happening here? does fire really conduct electricity, or is it
>something else I didn't think about?
>
>Thanks
>Adam