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Re: wire -- an idea?



In a message dated 5/27/99 5:15:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> For hookup 'wire', especially after the cap in a parallel design, could
>  one use the same material commonly used for the primary itself--soft
>  copper refrigerator tubing?  Couldn't one cut the tubing to length, then
>  hammer the ends flat and drill a hole for a terminal?  One advantage it
>  seems would be that the wire would by default be very straight.
>  
>  Thanks to all who answered my first (very) long question.
>  
Stan,

I soldered terminals on the ends of the 3/8" tubing, but that is essentially 
how I have made the primary interconnections on my 6.0" dia coil.

Ed Sonderman