Re: TCBOR Teslathon report

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: TCBOR Teslathon report
From: Storey Clamp <storey-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 01:16:22 -0500
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