Re: plastic homebrew caps

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <A123X-at-aol-dot-com>

I did an experiment with a HDPE bottle, it was a chocolate milk bottle, a 
very good shape. It ran for three minutes at 7500v, but failed almost 
instantly at 12000v. The puncture was right on a small gray speck in the 
plastic I saw while putting the foil on. Some shampoo bottles seem to be a 
good shape. 

In a message dated 5/14/01 7:21:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes: 


>
> Hi all, 
>
> In reading about MMC's, I think I recall that they use polypropelyne 
> dielectrics? 
>
> For my coil, I was thinking about a homebrew cap.  glass bottles are lossy, 
> so, thinks I, why not use PETE, HDPE, or PP bottles instead of glass?  any 
> input? 
>
> ben z