Re: Re: Conducting through glass

• Subject: Re: Re: Conducting through glass
• From: "DaxisWeb user" <-at-mail.daxis.nl>
• Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:46:19 +0000 (GMT)
• Cc: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
• In-Reply-to: <4.1.20000221192109.00a12a00-at-pop.dnvr.uswest-dot-net>
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• Reply-to: rdegraaf-at-mail.daxis.nl

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 Tesla List  wrote:
> Original Poster: "Ed Phillips" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> 
> 
> Tesla List wrote:
> > 
> > Original Poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-jpl.nasa.gov>
> > 
> > And, in fact, this is how they keep glass molten in the glass manufacturing
> > business.. Just stick carbon electrodes into it and run beaucoup current
> > through it.
> >
> 
> 	I would like to quibble about "conduction" through glass at room
> temperature, unless the glass is punctured.  The small hand-held spark
> coils often known as "Tesla coils" are intended for use in finding
> places where there is a hold through glass, no matter how tiny that hole
> may be.
> 
> 	As for the conduction of molten glass, when I was a kid we used to play
> around by hooking a couple of carbon rods in series with an electric
> iron as ballast, starting an arc between them, and feeding bits of blass
> into the arc.  It was quite easy to make a large puddle of orange hot
> molten glass with the carbons separated an inch or more and no arcing at
> all after the process started.  Would take at most a half hour to make
> the setup.
> 
> Ed
> 
> 
Protect your eyes with such an experiment!!! UV-radiation! I was in tears for three day's after I experimented with a toaster, carbon arc and a big reflector.

Ruud
Greetings from lovely and wet Holland

• Re: Conducting through glass
• From: "Ed Phillips" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)

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