Re: primarys

To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: primarys
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 22:25:04 -0600
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From: 	Alfred A. Skrocki[SMTP:alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com]
Sent: 	Sunday, November 02, 1997 3:33 AM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: primarys

On Saturday, November 01, 1997 8:03 PM Chris Fileccia
[SMTP:ChaoticD-at-swbell-dot-net] wrote;

> Chris agin. Like I said I am a beginner. I have recieved a lot of help
> these past few days. So i say thanks to all of u.
> 
> Anyway another question I have is about primarys. Not alot of info about
> them can be found, wich says that they don't matter right? I know better! 

If you look at the lists archive site at;

    ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/electrical/tesla

You will find quite a bit of discussion on primaries, especialy in the old 
messages.

> I am on my second primary for my first coil. (confused yet, wow)
> The first one looked like crap. I am using 8guage aluminum grounding wire
> by the way. It is so hard to work with. I finaly got a plastic jug and cut
> the arm off it to wind my coil verticly. I figure this will serve as some
> protection to corona. But The wire is still hard to coil so I am atempting
> to use a glue gun. It still isn't looking verry neet.
> Eventually I would like to try other stiles. It has been sugested to me to
> use a pancake coil and a sauser coil for my first TC but I am having a hard
> enuf time with a simple verrtical. Any assistance would be great.
 
Chris, you should have used copper or aluminum tubing it is much easier to 
bend! Since your commited to using the #8 solid aluminum you will have to 
periodicaly aneal the wire so you will be able to bend it. Basicaly 
anealing is simply heating the wire to a cherry red anallowing it to cool 
relatively slowly, with copper and aluminum the slow cooling isn't as 
important as it is in the ferrous metals. The reason the anealing has to 
be repeated is that copper and aluminum harden when worked, ie repeately 
bent.

                               Sincerely

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