Re: DIY Plasma globes available

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Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>

I like how they (American Science and Surplus, peddlers lower and lower
grade junk over the years)downplay a broken plasma ball as being no problem.

The mixture of low pressure gasses is what makes a plasma ball exciting.
Unless you have bottles of cool gas and glassworking abilities, it's an
overpriced and useless product. It's like selling burned out lightbulbs.

For the same cost as a broken glass ball, you can get a new GE 1000 watt
incandescent large mogul base bulb tha makes really fun blue arcs from the
filament to the glass.

KEN
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Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 11:31 PM
Subject: DIY Plasma globes available


 > Original poster: "David Speck by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<dave-at-davidspeckmd-dot-org>
 >
 > Group,
 > I ran across a source of 12" plasma globes for those of you interested in
 > playing with this sort of thing.  I ordered three -- two arrived with
 > broken off filler tips, but the third was sealed with an interesting gas
 > mixture inside.  The open ones could be resealed with a bit of
glassblowing.
 >
 > One open one looked looked it had been removed from a base, and had a lot
 > of removable silicone adhesive around the neck.  The other open unit had
no
 > adhesive, but a spot circled in black marker with an arrow suggesting that
 > it was a pinhole.  I don't know if it can be worked out or not.
 >
 > I have no commercial interest in the site -- just passing along the info
 > for anyone interested.
 >
 > See:
 >
 > http://sciplus-dot-com/singleItem.cfm?terms=8519&cartLogFrom=Search
 >
 >
 > 34464 PLASMA BALL $39.50 / EACH add to cart
 >
<http://sciplus-dot-com/_add2cart.cfm?jump=faq%2Ecfm&pid=8519&cartLogFrom=Search>
 >
 >
 > Probably searching on the part number will work better. (34464)
 >
 > Parts arrived 7 days from web order date, well packed.   Shipping was
 > reasonable.  No power supply, but that shouldn't be a problem for anyone
in
 > this group!
 >
 > Merry Christmas!
 > Dave
 >
 >
 >