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Re: barium titanate doorknob caps
Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <uncadoc-at-juno-dot-com>
Hi Gary, I agree with you, the Barium post did indeed get tedious. Lets
make better homebrew caps! Let us move on! Al.
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:48:34 -0600 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
writes:
> Original poster: "Lau, Gary by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Gary.Lau-at-compaq-dot-com>
>
> Hi Al:
>
> Please don't cast me as a sinister conspitator. My goal was not to
> "outlaw" or stiffle discussion on new or different means of making
> capacitors, but simply to point out that the NUMEROUS posts on the
> topic
> of whether Barium is poisonous had just been rehashing the same
> speculation, over and over. I suggested ending the thread not
> because I
> viewed ceramic caps as inferior, but because the specific discussion
> of
> whether barium was poisonous was going nowhere useful. I suggested
> no
> action on any other aspect of ceramic cap threads.
>
> Beyond that, I must also admit to being highly skeptical about the
> feasibility of a DIY ceramic cap. I suspect that attempting to
> build
> one's own ceramic caps in a microwave oven out of red clay that is
> dug
> up from your back yard, is not likely to pan out. There is a very
> good
> reason that new, commercial Bariusm Titanite caps cost hundreds of
> dollars each. The equipment needed to make such devices is surely
> specialized and expensive, manufacturing tolerances must be very
> tight,
> material composition must be very pure, etc. What makes you think
> there
> is Barium Titanite in your red clay? You must live in a very toxic
> neighborhood.
>
> This List is read by people of all levels of experience. I am
> concerned
> when I see well-meaning people suggesting things that I believe may
> be a
> waste of other's time and money. This is why I suggest MMC's over
> poly/Al caps. I have built both and there is no doubt which is less
> work, more durable, cheaper, neater, and more compact. I think the
> List
> benefits from such direct experience more-so than from idle
> speculation.
> But both are welcome and no one is outlawing anything.
>
> You are quite welcome by me to relate your ceramic cap exploits to
> the
> List. I just may get a little cranky if the same thing is rehashed
> in
> twenty posts.
>
> Regards, Gary Lau
> MA, USA
>
>
>
> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
> <uncadoc-at-juno-dot-com>
>
> Hello Gary and Moderator. Gee whiz, I thought that trying to
> fabricate
> ones own capacitors was a real winner for the Tesla list.
> Regardless of
> the composition of the capacitor. Did you cut folks off when they
> were
> fabricating caps of aluminum and plastic? Or any other versions of
> home
> brewed caps??? Hey, I am just trying to learn something here, and
> the
> barium caps, and my own attempt to fabricate a home brew version of
> it
> have now been cut off??? Why? It is good to get feedback from
> list
> members on the hows and whys and possible dangers of trying to
> fabricate
> a homebrew cap. I consider this valuable input, since list members
> are
> applying their expertise to the idea of manufacturing ones own clay
> and
> conductive plate cap. And now you cut the thread just because you
> and
> Gary Et Al are convinced that there can be no better cap than your
> MMC's?
> My idea was to condense and nuke/bake a red clay/copper type of cap
> on
> a
> larger scale, (like a small cookie sheet size)....Sorry to see that
> you
> have closed your minds to an entirely different way of building your
> own
> caps. The chemical warnings posted by the list members are no
> different
> than a aluminum dust warning when fabricating a cap from aluminum.
> It
> would appear that you are afraid of or do not understand the
> ceramic/glass microwave fusion process, for if you did, you would
> not
> have cut this thread off. Look, Maybe I am wrong in my idea about
> capacitor fusion, but that should not let you eliminate others that
> may
> have some knowledge of glass/ceramic fusion from posting to the
> list.
> Hey, look , a lot of members of the list post about using microwave
> tranny's for their coils. So should homebrewed microwaved clay
> capacitors be outlawed???? You are doing yourself a great
> disservice.
> Be not in such a hurry to cut off a thread, for it may have some
> value
> in
> a way that is yet to be understood. Or is this list to be
> interrupted
> on the whim of one member, when others may see a greater value on
> continuation of the thread????? And I now address this to Gary
> Lau,
> why is this thread so tedious??? Probably because it contains no
> content
> of MMC's is my guess. Al.
>
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 19:50:22 -0600 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> writes:
> > Original poster: "Lau, Gary by way of Terry Fritz
> > <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Gary.Lau-at-compaq-dot-com>
> >
> > Can we just summarize by saying "don't eat your capacitors", and
> > please
> > end this very tedious thread?!
> >
> > Gary Lau
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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