Re: Secondary and Capacitor

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Original poster: "Centauri by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <centauri010-at-attbi-dot-com>

Hey,
Is there any way to predict how well a bottle will work? All the glass 
bottles in my house are odd shaped gin/rum/whiskey type bottles. However, I 
have plenty of milk bottles. They are "Promised Land" (really good milk) 
bottles that they sell at the grocery store. Also, I went to radio shack 
today to find the binding posts and the largest things I could find were 
banana plug binding post. Will these work?

Thanks,
Alan

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>Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz 
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>As long as you don't sand the insulation off the magnet wire itself, you 
>can safely sand the bumps off the painted on coating. But there's no need 
>to except for cosmetics.
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>As far as everything you need to know about SW caps, this will cover it.
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>http://www.thegeekgroup-dot-org/projects/bucketcap/
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>>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>>Subject: Secondary and Capacitor
>>Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:22:31 -0700
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>>Original poster: "Centauri by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
>><centauri010-at-attbi-dot-com>
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>>Hey everyone,
>>I finished winding my secondary two days ago and I've been coating it with
>>gloss finish oil based  polyurethane since then. Does it matter if there 
>>are a few small bumps in the finish? I am hesitant to sand it for fear of 
>>damaging the coil. Also, how precise does the capacitance of the tank 
>>circuit need to be? Ideally I'd like to use MMC caps but due to money 
>>constraints, for the time being I think I'm going to go with a saltwater 
>>bottle cap. But I'm not sure how to make a cap like this with the precise 
>>capacitance I need. Also, I have no way of measuring capacitance. Advice 
>>would be much appreciated on this.
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>>Thanks,
>>Alan
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