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Re: "BEVERAGE" BOTTLE CAPS
From: Robert Michaels[SMTP:robert.michaels-at-online.sme-dot-org]
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 1997 6:11 AM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: "BEVERAGE" BOTTLE CAPS
Thanks, Alfred.
There has =got= to be a limit to how many ways and times
this has to be said before the message gets across.
I think I alone have covered about 987 of them.
Do you think the two of us to gether could cover the
remaining -- oh, I don't know -- 5,876 (more or less)??
Waiting for Godot, and
reason -- in Detroit, USA
Robert Michaels
TL>From: Alfred A. Skrocki[SMTP:alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com]
TL>Subject: Re: "BEVERAGE" BOTTLE CAPS
TL>On Friday, November 14, 1997 10:33 AM Jim Lux
TL>[SMTP:jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net] wrote;
TL>> > Like most of you, I've been reading all this mail re: glass bottle
TL>> > capacitors. I've yet to see anyone try the =plastic= soda-pop
TL>> > bottles. Many of these are actually made of the best dielectric
TL>> > material for Tesla coil use (polypropylene.)
TL>> I think they are made of PET (polyethylene terephalate)(sp?). I don't have
TL>> dielectric properties of PET handy.
TL>Polyethylene terephalate is mylar and it sucks as a dielectric for Tesla
TL>coil capacitors due to it's high power factor.
TL> Sincerely
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