Re: Brass bolt for top cap on secondary to secure toroid (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:50:18 -0500
From: Daniel Hess <dhess1@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Brass bolt for top cap on secondary to secure toroid (fwd)

John;

Personally, I wouldn't take a chance by introducing a path in to the 
inside of the secondary coil. There is so much nylon hardware easily 
available, affordable, that I wouldn't justify taking the risk.

One problem with internal arcing is that you may not realize it's 
happening until substantial damage has occurred. By then it may be beyond 
saving. Even if you are able to detect it in time, tearing down / opening 
up the coil is a lot of extra work.

There are probably many who have done it in the manner you suggest and 
have gotten away with it so far (knock, knock, knock) but there are so 
many things that can go wrong, my philosophy is; why risk it?

Good luck.

P.S. I could not link to the two photo sites you gave; They loaded 
successfully but I got blank pages.

Daniel Hess



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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:40:06 -0400
From: John <guipenguin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Brass bolt for top cap on secondary to secure toroid

Hello, I know most people use nylon bolts because of their
non-conductivity.... but would there be any problems with doing
something like this?

Top of cap: http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/GUIPEnguin/capup.jpg
Bottom of cap: 
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c178/GUIPEnguin/capdown.jpg

When I apply a thick glob of silicone to the inner bolt, and then
silicone in a tight-fitted lexan disk? Along with a baffle at the
other end of the pipe...... this should be reasonable protection from
an internal spark using this small brass bolt right? Want to make sure
before I silicon everything tightly in place.

Thanks,
     John.