cap from avery sheet protectors

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Original poster: "Joseph Geiss by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <joseph20-at-home-dot-com>

Hello all

Last night I was messing with my coil and managed to destroy my microwave
cap I don't have the money to make an MMC
so I looked around and found a box of 100 avery clear sheet protectors you
put in a three ring binder. Anyway I cut
some Aluminum foil into 8.5"x10" sheets  with 2" thick tabs then stuck them
into the sheet protectors. I only made 9
to test and compressed the cap together with some heavy textbooks and
measured the capacitance at 35.4nf. It worked
lasted longer then I expected it to with a MOT connected to it but it did
arc through the plastic after about 10min.
I just though I would share my experiment with the list as an alternative
that people may want to try if they don't
have the cash for a MMC. a box of 50 avery sheet protectors is like $12.00
and you could put a blank one between the
sheets with foil in them for extra insulation and then put oil in it to
further add insulation


please excuse anything in this message that makes no sense, its 1:30AM and I
am very tired
Joe Geiss