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Re: Pipe scraps
>Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 12:25:14 -0600
>From: Tesla List <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
>To: Tesla-list-subscribers-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Pipe scraps
>Reply-to: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>|> Subject: Pipe scraps
>>From Benson_Barry%PAX5-at-mr.nawcad.navy.milSat Oct 5 12:07:17 1996
>Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 09:23:00 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Benson_Barry%PAX5-at-mr.nawcad.navy.mil
>To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Pipe scraps
>I got 56" sparks from a 6" X 27" (used) piece of 1/4" wall pvc sewer pipe
>(euwwwwww)!.
>(I dare any scrounge maven to top that one!!! Richard??). Some of the
>bulldozer tread marks
>were hard to clean out though. It still has a slight oval shape.
>Barry
<el major snippo>
Barry,
Sounds excellent!..._but_ how much input power did you use?
I have a single 15 kV -at- 60 mA neon
powered coil, multi-section static gap, 0.008 mfd cap (made with a bank of 30
mica's), secondary 24" wound length of #26 on 4.25 inch dia, 3/16" thick
'salvaged' PVC sewer pipe from a construction site. I luckily found
some lengths without bulldozer marks. I did not prep the tube with
any coatings before winding. Several coats of varathane after, I can get 52
inchers to a large flat surface grounded metal target.
You're talking to an experienced scrounger here! : )
regards,
rwstephens