RE: tesla coil

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Original poster: "Duke, Ronn (CCI-San Diego CCC) by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Ron.Duke-at-cox-dot-com>

Ant,
FYI 
Before winding your coil, put 1 or 2  strips of double stick masking tape
length wise evenly spaced on your form before winding. This will keep your
winding in place in case you accidentally let go of your wire. That way your
coil won't turn into a slinky out of control. 

Later,

Ronn


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Tesla list [SMTP:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
	Sent:	Tuesday, January 02, 2001 8:34 PM
	To:	tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
	Subject:	Re: tesla coil

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

	In a message dated 1/2/01 9:12:57 PM Eastern Standard Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
	writes:

	> 
	>  I'm having a bit of a problem.  When winding the secondary, how
do I keep 
	> the 
	>  coil from kinking? Or from accidently overlapping itself. it's
not much of 
	a 
	> 
	>  technical question, but I know it will affect my coil's output.
How do I 
	>  keep the loops from sliding over themselves, and how to I keep
the 
	secondary 
	> 
	>  taut when I'm not holding it?