CD capacitor

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Cydesho-at-aol-dot-com>

Here's an idea I thought I'd throw out there. Has anyone considered using a 
stack of CD's as a capacitor? CD's are often free, they have big bins of free 
AOL Internet CD's at the market I work at. They would stack really nicely, 
and the metal on the surface of the CD is really smooth and uniform. A 
capacitor made of these things would more than likely have to be submersed in 
oil to prevent arcing and corona. They only problem would be finding a way to 
remove the paint from a portion of the CD in order to make an electrical 
connection. I have no idea what kind of plastic CD's are made of, but I 
thought I'd see what some other people thought of this. 
                                Justin