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Re: Rubber toroids





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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:16:06 -0700
From: Jim Lux <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Rubber toroids

I have talked to some HV experimenters who used a painted rubber inner tube
as a HV terminal on a tesla coil. They encountered two problems: 1) The
ozone makes the rubber degrade very quickly; 2) If a significant amount of
heat is developed at any single point, the rubber gets soft.  In either
case, you wind up with a leaking toroid,