Re: Help!!!!

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• Subject: Re: Help!!!!
• From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
• Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 22:53:41 -0500
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Subject:     Re: Help!!!!
      Date:  Fri, 30 May 1997 20:41:09 -0500
      From: rickh-at-ghg-dot-net (Rick Holland)
        To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
References:      1


Tesla List wrote:

>   Magnet wire is the name given to relatively pure copper wire that
> is insulated with enamel. Almost any wire you can get now a days that isn't
> plastic coated is magnet wire. 

Be careful here. You can also get bare copper wire (with no coating at
all) from hardware and hobby stores. This wire has many uses, but would
be extremely difficult to use in Tesla applications.

> The reason magnet wire is specified is
> because you don't wan't to use impure wire like telephone wire
> because it is soo brittle it will break while you try to wind a coil
> with it.

Telephone wire also has the disadvantage of having been twisted around
another wire, meaning you would have to un-twist several hundred feet of
the stuff to wind a coil. A very daunting task at best.
>                                Sincerely

>                            Alfred A. Skrocki
>                    alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com


-- 

     Rick Holland

     The Answer is 42.

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