Re: How much salt?

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Original poster: "Robert by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <obiwan1186-at-sunflower-dot-com>

when I built my beer bottle caps I used 1/4 cup of salt to one beer bottle full
of hot water (not boiling, just hot from the tap). this was my second try. my
first try i tried using salt water on both the inside and the outside. bad
idea. it might work ok (actually i had tons of corona) but it is messy, and it
is very heavy. i used foil on the outside. then i covered the foil with duct
tape. then i covered the duct tape with electrical tape. it took me about 1
hour to make all the caps. they performed remarkably well. then i switched to a
geek group MMC bank. now i have seen the light. I will never go back to salt
water caps again. 
my 2µc. 
Robert

Tesla list wrote:

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> Original poster: "Bob Bozarth by way of Terry Fritz
> <mailto:twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <mailto:jbdetails-at-prodigy-dot-net><jbdetails-at-prodigy-dot-net>
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>     I'm building SW Caps for the first time. I have researched the net quite
> extensively, however I am unsure of the affects of the amount of salt in the
> water. Most sites that I have been to say to put in about 5 tablespoons to
> about 1 liter. It seems to me that you could put alot more than that. If so,
> would it make the caps more efficient, or is a limited amount of salt to
> water ratio sufficient?
>     I thought of using machine shop chips to fill the bottle. I used to work
> at a machine shop, and there was quite an abundant amount of very fine chips
> of varied types of materials. (brass, mild steel, stainless , copper, etc.)
> Bad idea? May be difficult to suppress corona, since o
> il won't float. Also,
> what about rolling up thin spring steels small enough to fit through the top
> of, for example, a beer bottle. With the spring steel being such a size that
> it will expand to the outside. I might just be making more work than can be
> accomplished with just salt water, but how can I be ridiculed on this list
> if I never express my ideas? (grin).
> 
>     Thanks,
> Bob Bozarth
> Experimenter
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