Re: Dielectric constant table

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com>

Hi Matt,

:-)))

I just wanted to point out to the poster that the oil filled homemade poly 
cap, just like the Edison phonograph, is sort of a "nostalgic" effort...

If he or she "wants" to recreate that "old world" feeling of blowing glass 
plate caps or oil splattering all over the garage, then yeah!!!   "Go for 
it...  "We don't normally think of recreating Richard Hull's Nemesis as a 
historical reproduction effort...  But maybe recent history should be 
reborn again just for the historical reference...  It just seemed to me 
that the person wanted a Tesla coil capacitor and was not aware of 
MMCs...  I just had to let them know...

But if they think that a 1985 oil filled poly cap plan they picked up off 
funet is the latest and greatest technology...  Golly, we just have to let 
them know ;-))  I know of many poly sheeting purchases for that super oil 
filled cap... that really did end up keeping paint off the carpet ;-))  I 
just didn't get that "I want to reproduce a fully accurate reproduction of 
that oil filled homemade capacitor era device" situation ;-))

So I don't mean to discourage anyone or belittle a nostalgic effort...  I 
just wanted to be sure they have the full picture of the "present" 
situation with the benefit of state of the art information.

Hate to see someone procuring ,building, blowing... an oil filled cap when 
all they needed was a nice MMC... ;-))

Goodness knows the MMC is by far the biggest Tesla coiling advance in the 
last five years...  Many still do not know...  It is our duty to inform...

Cheers,

         Terry


At 11:02 PM 9/18/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 9/18/03 7:40:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>
>I just wanted to be sure you were aware that nobody makes homemade oil caps
>anymore.  A new cap called the "MMC" has totally replaced them now
>days.  When MMC came on to scene, many people just stopped there oil filled
>cap projects right in the middle and never went back.
>
>Hi Terry, All,
>     Isn't that a bit like saying that no one has wanted to build a glider 
> since the Wright Bros. invented powered flight, or that no one builds 
> mechanical clocks since the invention of digital timers? True, the MMC is 
> more durable and efficient, but some people are interested in the 
> technology that existed before IGBTs and MTV. One of my neighbors just 
> completed building a brass and mahogany Edison phonograph and he doesn't 
> even own a Walkman or a Bose waveradio. I also don't believe that deWalt 
> or Black & Decker have made fine woodcarving obsolete, and I think an 
> SSTC is an oxymoron, but that's for another (off-list) discussion.
>     Sorry, but expressions like "nobody does", "everybody thinks", or 
> "has totally replaced" are red-flag expressions to some of us auldpharts.
>Matt D.