Re: TC discharge... safe or not

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Original poster: "robert & june heidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com>

Jeff: To add a small point to your trama I have a US Army medical corps UV
tool with quartz short wave coil and probe used to treat Gonorhea before
antibiotics became a standard practice use. What would you use? A hot rod ?
     Robert  H

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 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 22:19:00 -0700
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: RE: TC discharge... safe or not
 > Resent-From: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Resent-Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 22:27:08 -0700
 >
 > Original poster: "Jeff W. Parisse by way of Terry Fritz 
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 > <jparisse-at-teslacoil-dot-com>
 >
 > KEN,
 >
 > I didn't take it as an attack. ;-) Sometimes the fact that I can't talk
 > about exactitudes offends the sensibilities of some (and I can
 > understand).
 >
 > The Tesla coil doesn't R.F. burn, it's people who R.F. burn! (I hope
 > everybody from Colorado is laughing right now).
 >
 > People used to make glass anal probes for their violet ray wands (think
 > of it like a plasma ball up the wazoo - a sad butt true Tesla coil
 > related story folks). I'm sure that the curator of the Electrotherapy
 > Museum can attest to the historical accuracy of Violet Ray use. The
 > point is: it's not the size of the coil, it's how you use it... And:
 > people do dumb things with their Tesla coils and sometimes that's how
 > one learns (Cue Allanis Morisette).
 >
 > My position is that even the wimpy coils kill (the toddler in Oregon)
 > because of exposed wiring, etc., etc.. I know that makes me a "Safety
 > Nut" (the preferred term to the wholly offensive "Safety Nazi") but
 > that's my role.
 >
 >
 > Jeff
 >
 >
 >
 > KEN Wrote:
 > Of course. I still no reason to fear a wimpy coil like it's it's a
 > downed powerline in the alley. People here like to share only the large,
 > scary stories about accidents gone wrong to the max.
 >
 > You can burn your finger tips on some large plasma balls if you don't
 > press on them hard enough. It hardly makes them devices to hide from in
 > fear.
 >
 > KEN
 >
 >