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Re: More rotary gap questions...



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  Date:   Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:29:17 +0500
  From:   "Alfred A. Skrocki" <alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com>
    To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


On Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:25:27 +1200 Malcolm Watts
<MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz> wrote;

> I had a number of 1/2 inch brass rods tipped with what was supposed 
> to be tungsten carbide at a local machinists shop some time ago. The 
> stuff looks metallic after being faced and has no appreciable 
> resistance that I can measure. The colour of the spark is a very 
> bright blue. I have used such electrodes for years. They wear very 
> well (slowly).

This seems to agree with what I have been hearing about tungsten 
carbide.


                               Sincerely

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