Re: Caesar.....

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Original poster: "Jason Johnson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <hvjjohnson13-at-hotmail-dot-com>

He also pushed another great spark gap aspect; tungsten carbide! My gaps
have to handle more current than they should have to at a close gap setting,
because I run unballasted MOTs with no doublers in several of my coils. I
saw him on here pushing cutting inserts for the longest time, and people
still went out and bought their expensive pure tungsten and fiddled with
that. After I tried tungsten carbide cutting inserts for the first time, I
never went back to anything else. They make a huge difference in my 4" MOT
coil (ask anyone at the Geek Teslathon :-). I've also noticed that most of
the new people on the list don't realize what a great innovator we have
here, and we have no Metlicka gaps, caps, or design "rules" like the Freau
ones (anybody remember marcs 3k turn coil?).

I think its time to give some recognition where recognition is due :-)

Hail Metlicka!

"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
 -Albert Einstein

<< Jason R. Johnson >>
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The Geek Group
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Subject: RE: Caesar.....


> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Indeed!  Although there was talk of trigger gaps in the past, Marc is the
> one who finally got them to work.  Others may be playing follow the leader
> and refining the art.  But Marc is the one who finally made practical
> triggered spark gaps a reality.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Terry
>
>
> At 11:03 PM 9/9/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >No one is crediting Marc for the concept of a TSG. But Marc should be
given
> >credit for the fabrication of an inexpensive TSG. Who can we give back to
> >the idea of using a light dimmer control. The idea of building great
bridges
> >goes all the way back to China, but credits for the Golden Gate Bridge
> >belong to the design engineers.
> >
> >Godfrey Loudner
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Tesla list [SMTP:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
> >> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 9:22 PM
> >> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> >> Subject: Caesar.....
> >>
> >> Original poster: "Luc by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> >> <ludev-at-videotron.ca>
> >>
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> I just feel to tell you a story about a guy on a discussion
> >> group; the guy had a really good idea and for two years, time to
> >> time, patiently, he try to share is finding. One day every one
> >> think he had a good idea and everybody try his finding.
> >>
> >> On my email from the group today I extracted these two sentence
> >> from two different email:
> >>
> >>
> >> "large RQ, SDgap, and Terry's triggered ( qualifies as multiple
> >> due to more than 2 electrodes :)"
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> "I'm kind of waiting for Terry and "weazle" McCreath (hope I
> >> spelt that right) to perfect and standardize a TSG circuit and
> >> then build that circuit for the SG of my coil project."
> >>
> >>
> >> May be it's just me but if I was the guy about who I tell you the
> >> story, I probably feel cheap. Marc Metlicka was the guy about who
> >> I talk about, he try the TSG, long before every one else on this
> >> list, I think and if not I was the one who make the promotion of
> >> it, he is not the creator of the TSG but the guy who bring it to us.
> >>
> >> In french we have an expression " Rendez a Cesar ce qui
> >> appartient a Cesar" ( Give back to Caesar what is belong to
> >> Caesar ).
> >>
> >> I hope I don't make Marc feel embarrass.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Luc Benard
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>