Re: Along the lines of "Trying this at home"

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Original poster: "Jason Petrou by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>

Probably not - If you insulated it enough. What I would do is to take  abit
of plasic pipe and rn the wire to ground through the inside of the pipe -
thats what we do wth henry's coil :)

Jason
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Subject: Along the lines of "Trying this at home"


> Original poster: "CJ Moore by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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>
> I would definitely not try shooting arcs out of my fingers (or any body
part),
> but I was curious as to whether or not something else similar was
dangerous. I
> built a small table top coil. Then got a copper tube about 4 inches long.
I
> covered the thing with electrical tape (except for the ends) then I wound
a
> great deal of tap around one section (about a 4 inch dia. tape role around
the
> tube). Then I hooked up a grounded wire to the other end of the copper
tube. I
> used the tube to draw arcs from my coil, while holding on by the big tape
> rolled section. Is this dangerous?
> Thanks.
>
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