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Re: Capacitor construction
>Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 00:10:36 -0700
>From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Capacitor construction
>
>Tesla List wrote:
>>
>Good Questions! If you use Heavy-Duty aluminum foil, and assemble the
>cap such that the entire protruding edges of the foil are clamped
>together and held from moving relative to the LDPE you shouldn't get any
>shifting. On mine, the bus bars that tied the foil sheets together were
>also screwed to insulating standoffs that also held the LDPE from
>moving. Your thought about using hot melt adhesive is also an approach -
>but use the translucent-clear variety not the yellow stuff that Jim
>Fosse found dissolved in transformer oil.
>
>Also, somone else on this list had a post a while back where they had
>"ironed" aluminum sheets to either polyproylene or polypropylene to LDPE
>and reported some success. Although LDPE isn't "glueable", it certainly
>is "weldable" by careful heating.
>
Bert,
Don Lanchester (of TTL cookbook fame) says that 1/2"
polyethylene rods can be used in "hot glue" guns for potting and
injection molding. I'll suggest trying it for welding LDPE.
(he now has a non-GENIE site: http://www.tinaja-dot-com/ )
jim