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gold foil Re: Electroplating - why bother?
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From: Bill Noble [SMTP:william_b_noble-at-email.msn-dot-com]
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 1998 12:19 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: gold foil Re: Electroplating - why bother?
honest, gold leaf is really cheap. check out your local art supply. It's
cheap enough that in Thailand, people who make only $100 per year can afford
to buy sheets of it to cover the budda figures. Remember, even if gold is
expensive, the leaf is only a few atoms thick so there isn't much gold in a
gold leaf. And, it will NEVER tarnish.
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>From: RODERICK MAXWELL [SMTP:tank-at-magnolia-dot-net]
>Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 10:30 PM
>To: Tesla List
>Subject: Re: Electroplating - why bother?
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>Tesla List wrote:
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>> From: Bill Noble [SMTP:william_b_noble-at-email.msn-dot-com]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 7:53 PM
>> To: Tesla List
>> Subject: Re: Electroplating - why bother?
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>> if you have a really nice torus anyway, why electroplate it - just
coat
>> the wood with gold foil - it's cheap, available from any art store and
will
>> make a really neat finish which will, of course, be quite conductive. you
>> just lay the sheets onto a thin layer of gum arabic and burnish lightly.
I
>> suspect thin aluminum or silver foil or tin foil will work fine also. As
>> another thought, there are spray on conductive coatings which you can buy
in
>> small cans for around $20 per can - they are used for EMI suppression.
>> Don't have a reference handy.
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>> for my 2 cents, I'd go with gold foil - you could always claim it's solid
>> gold that way
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> I have thought of the same thing. Kind of expensive though. At these
>freqs. and voltages the adhesive would not interfere with the conduction
>of the discharge. I will investigate this method.
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> Frankensteins Helper
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