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Re: Greg and Golka (Twins separated at birth?) Nope.
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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 22:26:11 -0500
From: "DR.RESONANCE" <DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Greg and Golka (Twins separated at birth?) Nope.
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Gosh, certainly hope Greg & Golka are not relatives. Greg is proabably
quite ethical --- Golka, as I can tell you from first hand experience, it
certainly not -- a true snake oil salesman if there ever was one. He
stole negatives from us of some of our equipment and tried to peddle them
to someone in Hollywood. We never got the negs or photos back. He also
threatened Wysock's then pregnant wife and to this date Bill said he would
shoot or beat Golka on site if he ever returns. Just a cautionary note to
anyone involved with Tesla -- stay far away from Golka --- and don't buy
any used cars from this salesman!!
Golka never could get his mess to work at all. Wysock made several trips
up there to do the tuning and finally get it spitting sparks.
DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net
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> Subject: Greg and Golka (Twins separated at birth?) Nope.
> Date: Wednesday,October 08,1997 9:55 PM
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> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 19:56:37 -0400
> From: Thomas McGahee <tom_mcgahee-at-sigmais-dot-com>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: Greg and Golka (Twins separated at birth?) Nope.
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> > From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > Subject: Why a toroid?
> > Date: Tuesday, October 07, 1997 11:04 PM
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> > Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 19:04:16 +0000
> > From: Greg Leyh <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> > To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > Subject: Why a toroid?
> >
> > A lot of effort has been directed at fabricating toroids for TC's.
> > Has anyone ever tried using a large metal disk as the top
> electrode?
> > A suitably sized disk would have just as much C to gnd as the
> toroid.
> >
> > I know that I should just try it myself, but I thought I'd ask
> first.
> >
> >
> > -GL
>
> Greg,
> I know I already posted some stuff on this topic, but it just struck
> me: you are not like many of the people on this list (myself
> included) that run with under-powered coils. If you pump enough power
> in, yeah, you're going to lose some of that to corona, but the rest
> of it is going to come streaming out in arcs. So don't let any
> negative comments I or others may have made prevent you from trying
> this out. You are operating in a different league than most of us.
> The rules are slightly different when you are pumping 100 KW in,
> versus just a couple of kilowatts. Damn the corona leaks! Full speed
> ahead! You are in a different league not JUST because you are
> bigger. Golka was bigger, too, but that's where the resemblance
> stops. No one would confuse the two of you. Or your coils...
>
> I remember looking at one of Richard Hull's video tapes where he
> discussed Golka's massive coil. (Tim Raney gave me a whole box of
> video tapes, and I spent several days spending every available moment
> watching them all. Thanks, Tim!) Anyway, Golka's coil can only be
> described as being a very large -at-!#*&%#. To put it mildly. It was a
> true monstrousity. It was cobbled together from all kinds of odds and
> ends. It was truly ugly. It looked awful. But it worked.
>
> Golka pumped so much power into the darn thing that it didn't have
> any other choice *but* to work. If it's a double tuned resonant
> circuit and you excite it with enough of that electrical stuff, it
> spits out sparks. Clobber it with a bazillion KW and it spits out
> really BIG *A*R*C*S*. Golka's coil was really *B*A*D*. Aesthetically,
> it is one of the worst things I have ever seen. Someone on this list
> posted something once saying that Golka used ceramic toilets as his
> HV insulators. I barf at the thought. But it worked.
>
> By the way, Richard Hull, if you are reading this post, maybe for our
> edification (we can all use a good laugh) you can tell us all some
> more of the gory details of this truly monstrous coil. Not every one
> on the list has seen the video, and I think the facts about Golka's
> coil are a real hoot! And it worked! (More than I can say for one or
> two of *my* coils).
>
> Still chuckling in Paterson,
> Fr. Tom McGahee