Re: Coil for sale

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rblaisdell-at-juno-dot-com>

Not sure if terry will keep this thread around but heres mine on the
subject,

do you really think some Avg. Joe is going to buy this anyways,
I don't think there is a problem with it.
Anyhow someone with enough lack of brain cells that buys and
kills/injures him/herself is
up for my vote in the Darwin Awards,
Let the universe be done with them and forget about the lawyers.

My views,
Ry Blaisdell

BTW 
anyone know when the next shipment of Geekcaps is gonna get out?




On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 20:27:02 -0700 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
writes:
> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
> <Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>
> 
> In a message dated 3/30/02 9:17:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
> writes:
> 
> Jim, all,
> 
> To be honest, I have to agree with Jim on this one. Let's face it, 
> this
> machine would be positively LETHAL in the wrong hands. IMHO a
> Tesla system of this magnitude is really too dangerous for the 
> average
> John Q. Citizen who has not progressed thru the typical learning 
> curve that most of us go thru to achieve construction of a large 
> coil system.
> I'm certainly not saying that one needs to be an EE to build or 
> handle
> a big coil system, but one certainly needs to be well experienced 
> with the aspect of safely handling potentially lethal HV circuitry. 
> As
> others have already stated, most of us go thru the learning curve of
> building a small NST or OBIT Tesla coil before we jump into a pole
> pig system. Let's face it, if you've never messed with HV before, 
> you're almost certain to make a few mistakes along the way. And 
> as I've said before, a "mistake" with 10 kV -at- 23 mA will be quite
> painful, but the same mistake at 14.4 kV -at- ~ 700 mA will most like-
> ly be LETHAL. I myself have made a few mistakes back in my 
> "10/23" days and learned to be more careful before I got into the
> pole pig era. I'm sure that there are even some EE types that 
> are totally inexperienced in dealing with the HV high energy cir-
> cuitry of a large Tesla system up close amd personal and there
> are some plain HS grads that are quite experienced and self taught
> to the point that they are quite capable of SAFELY handling a
> large Tesla system.
> 
> Hopefully, anyone who knows what this system is will be smart 
> enough to realize the dangers involved with the operation of such 
> a system.
> 
> Sparkin' in Memphis,
> David Rieben
> 
> 
> << I don’t know about that auction,
> < The whole thing seems a little fishy to me.
>  
> < Can you imaging what shipping and insurance would be on just the
> < transformer alone (never mind the breakable stuff)?
>  
> < What would the liability be if you sold it to a bunch of frat kids 
> who
> < end up killing a fellow beer bonger?
>  
> < The whole premise of an auction of this type seems touchy at best 
> and
> < plain old irresponsible at worst.
>  
> < Just my .02,
> < Jim >>
> 
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