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Re: Beating Solved



Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From ed-at-alumni.caltech.eduTue Sep 10 22:46:45 1996
> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 20:01:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Edward V. Phillips" <ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Beating Solved
> 
> Re: MICA
>         Thanks for the dope, Richard.  Rather a dissapointment to hear
> that "good old mica" just isn't available any more.  I know the stuff
> available at hardware stores around here (for outrageous prices) looks
> pretty crummy and isn't homogeneous enough to cleave with a razor
> blade, as we used to.
> Ed


Ed, 

It is indeed sad that the good old stuff is slowly goin' away.  True it 
is replaced by the better or equivalent with certain plastics, but it 
would be nice to hand make a few old caps with good mica.


Richard Hull, TCBOR