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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> To: Tesla-list-subscribers-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: TCBOR Teslathon report
> Date: Saturday, October 19, 1996 11:25 PM
> 
> > Subject: RE: TCBOR Teslathon report
> 
> >From storey-at-stic-dot-netSat Oct 19 21:21:39 1996
> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 01:16:22 -0500
> From: Storey Clamp <storey-at-stic-dot-net>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: TCBOR Teslathon report
> 
> Tesla List wrote:
> > 
> > >From Benson_Barry%PAX5-at-mr.nawcad.navy.milFri Oct 18 22:23:38 1996
> > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 15:00:00 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Benson_Barry%PAX5-at-mr.nawcad.navy.mil
> > To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> > Subject: RE: TCBOR Teslathon report
> > 
> > The Teslathon at Richard Hull's laboratory was a blast.  I saw more
> > Physics demonstrated in two days than in ten years at the university.
> > The Maggy was!  Talk about field control!  This little, teeny, tiny,
> > itty, bitty coil putting out Huge (>100") sparks.  When it did arc
> > over it arced between the toroids, not across the tiny coil!!!!!!
> > Go figure!  The driver wasn't all that big either.  Very nice rotary
> > gap design.  The sparks had a musical quality to their sound.
> > Nice tune.
> > 
> > The demonstration of electrostatic potential waves from a small
> > Tesla coil using an electrometer connected to an isolated sphere
> > was very interesting.  The demonstration of the "umbrella" effect
> > of electrostatic shielding was very nice.  Gauss's flux theory will
> > never be the same.  Thanks Richard for letting me try this
> > experiment in your awsome high voltage laboratory!
> > 
> > The water arc explosion device was amazing.  Three drops of
> > water vaporized by a capacitor bank discharge inside a barrel
> > of tool steel "made" a one centimeter hole in 1/4" fine veneer
> > plywood with very sharp clean edges!  I'll have to think about
> > this one for a while.
> > 
> >
> 	When is the next Teslathon? For that much fun I would consider driving
> all the way from Texas!
> 
> Storey Clamp
> San Antonio, Texas

I was thinking that too. Illinois is closer and it sounds like it would be
worth the trip.
Dave Huffman