Re: Static Gap Spacing

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
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> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> Ralph,
> 
> If you mounted your static gap tubes horizontally instead of vertically on
> longish machine screws, couldn't you just raise or lower every other tube to
> make a sort of single-mounting-plate version of the Scott D. gap?  I don't
> know that this is much of an improvement over your vertical mount system, but
> avoids the (necessarily precise) step of ovalizing the tubes.  Just a
> thought...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael Tandy

	The vertical mounting provides quite a bit of convection cooling.

Ed