Re: Static gap cleaning

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Original poster: "Metlicka Marc by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mystuffs-at-orwell-dot-net>



Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Ted Rosenberg by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Ted.Rosenberg-at-radioshack-dot-com>
> 
> Congrats, Ed. Welcome to the wonderful world of gap flossing.  :)))
> I used crocus cloth. It worked well, was fast and left virtually no residue.
> But the real answer turned out to be....the triggered gap.

Or even using carbide inserts for the static gap electrodes. They don't
need cleaning.
Marc M.

> 
> Safet First
> 
> Ted
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 6:01 PM
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> Subject: Static gap cleaning
> 
> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com>
> 
> Well, I just joined the long list of those who have had to clean their
> static
> gaps.  This is after recently telling everyone that I have never had any
> problems with them.  I am running a 3" coil at 15 kv 60ma using a RQ / TCBOR
> static gap.  The coil would run fine at low and medium power levels but when
> the variac was increased the last 10%, the coil was running erratically.
> The
> gaps would stop firing for a second or two then take off again.  I would
> think
> that crap in the gaps would make it fire erratically at low power, but not
> so.
> I cleaned the gaps with fine sandpaper and steel wool.  It is not easy to
> get
> in there to clean them.  After cleaning, everything works very well.  The
> gap
> did make some nice fireworks when first fired up, burning up pieces of steel
> wool that were still in there.
> 
> Ed Sonderman