Wine bottle replacement

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Original poster: "McInturff, Brian by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <brian.mcinturff-at-lmco-dot-com>


I have a neon transformer/spark gap/argon tube
device which uses 3 wine bottle (leyden jar)
capacitors.  The transformer is 9500V (I also
have a 12.5 I could use.)  The spark gap is 
not regulated but adujstable.  I would like to 
replace these wine bottles if possible with 
lighter capacitors.  I forget what approx 
capacitance the bottles had, but think it 
was only around 5pF as measured on
a cheap multimeter.  Are there any
reasonably priced lighweight caps that can
replace them in a spark gap device?  

Here's a simple schematic of the thing:
http://www.electroherbalism-dot-com/Bioelectronics/Other%20Bioelectronics/ASTROD
/astrod.JPG

turf