Re: Coilforms, sealants/glyptal (fwd)

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Coilforms, sealants/glyptal (fwd)
From: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 14:53:53 -0600 (MDT)
Approved: mod1-at-pupman-dot-com



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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 23:05:51 -0600
From: "D.C. Cox" <DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Coilforms, sealants/glyptal (fwd)

to: Larry Bud

Add three 1/4 inch thick x interior dia. of tube acrylic disks.  They will
prevent internal flashover and stiffen the tube substantially.

DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net


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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Coilforms, sealants/glyptal (fwd)
> Date: Sunday, July 12, 1998 9:34 PM
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> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:55:40 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Larry Bud Melman <gasman-at-althea.a-line-dot-net>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: Re: Coilforms, sealants/glyptal (fwd)
> 
> > If you are using the sonotube --- don't bother with the Bondo.  Just
apply
> > 3 coats of Glyptal inside and outside and then wind.  Apply 3 more
light
> > coats after winding and fire it up.  Glyptal was originally a very high
> 
> 
> 	But, as I stated, the reason I had chosen the bondo resin is
> because of the relative flaccidity of the Sonotube.  I wanted to
> improve the rigidity.  Glyptal won't do that, right?  And a few thousand 
> feet of magnet wire is going to be lots of weight on this little
cardboard
> tube with no resin.....
> 
> 	Well, still working on a 'real' coilform....