Re: Coherers & magnetic detector

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
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> Original poster: "J. B. Weazle McCreath by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca>
> 
> >
> >Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> >
> >Tesla list wrote:
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> >The iron (steel, more likely) "picture wire" around here is pretty big
> >(about #30, and galvanized) and too stiff to really wind around the
> >pulleys.  The original descriptions call for much finer wire, silk
> >insulated, and I doubt if any of that still is available.
> >
> >Ed
> >
> 
> Hello Ed, Coilers,
> 
> I should have been a little more descriptive about the picture wire I
> mentioned in my earlier post.  What I have here is almost a litz-like
> type of wire, with about 7 or 8 strands of very fine wire woven into
> a bundle which overall is about number 20 gauge wire.  It's flexible
> and I'm sure would have no difficulty in passing around the pulleys.
> 
> 73, Weazle, VE3EAR/VE3WZL
> G-1#1214

	Interesting.  Have you measured the diameter of the individual
strands?  The area of a #20 wire is about 10 times that of a #30 wire,
so a diameter of about 0.010" would fit.

Ed