RE: I Got The Ugliest Secondary Of All

["Oxandale, Terry" <Toxandale-at-SPP-dot-org> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Terry is a true Olympiad with this example. Straight out of the box at
full sprint. This thing would bring a tear to a glass eye.

The Un-Terry

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> From: 	Tesla list[SMTP:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
> Sent: 	Sunday, October 01, 2000 11:49 PM
> To: 	tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: 	I Got The Ugliest Secondary Of All
> 
> Original poster: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
> 
> 
> OOOH! Yeeah!
> 
> The competition is going to be tough!
> 
> "My" entry has just been loaded to:
> 
> http://216.160.168.190/TeslaCoils/Misc/IGTUSOA/Terry.jpg
> 
> It has a 1:1 secondary buried in the paraffin wax at the base.  It is
> a 1
> million volt TC that used paraffin as an insulator for the giant
> output
> voltage (ha ha, he he, ho ho!).  The primary was originally wrapped
> around
> the orange flower pot.  It is about ten years old and was retired
> after all
> the paraffin shrunk and cracked during construction.  It was fired and
> instantly shorted despite the month's worth of work put into the mess.
> It
> now serves as my favorite door stop and has performed great for the
> over
> years in that duty!
> 
> Entries for the IGTUSOA can be set to:
> 
> terrellf-at-uswest-dot-net
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Terry
> 
> 
> At 11:29 PM 10/1/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >hello to all,
> >i dug up my first secondary yesterday, just to flash some lights? i
> am
> >going to say that "I HAVE THE UGLIEST SECONDARY OF ALL". if anyone
> >thinks they can beat that statement, let the games begin. if
> interested,
> >i can send a pic or, if terry doesn't think this too silly, maybe
> he'll
> >put my pic on his page?
> >in the spirit of terry's gmheislr cup i think that i can even put a
> nice
> >I Got The Ugliest Secondary Of All, or "IGTUSOA"- award together.
> this
> >is one time that haste and lack of care can pay off. i think we need
> to
> >get a little light heartedness back into the game?
> >any taker's? comments? opinions? (that may be a loaded question?)
> >marc
> >
> 
>