Re: Picture tube --> cap?

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: Picture tube --> cap?
• From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
• Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:32:16 -0700

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From cfrancis-at-infinet-dot-comSun Sep 29 22:03:20 1996
> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 17:57:15 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Chris Francis <cfrancis-at-infinet-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Picture tube --> cap?
> 
> 
> I was getting ready to pitch an old tv and started wondering...
> 
> Would the picture tube make a good cap? (aside from the size and breakage
> potential.)
> 
> It should be able to take the voltage.
> Anybody try this?
> 
> Chris

At only a few hundred pufferoos each, it would require a motel's worth of 
TV' tubes to make a decent cap.  Then it would still be glass.

Richard Hull, TCBOR

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