Stumped at first light

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <IBATOU2-at-aol-dot-com>

   My class has built most of our coil and I am a little sceptical about 
our capacitance calculations. We would very much like to fire it up, but I 
think it needs a little fine tuning. Here is what we built: feed-12000v NST 
-at- 30ma, adjustable spark gap built out of copper tubing, The primary is 6 
turns of 1/4" copper tubing with a 3/4" gap between turns, the secondary is 
1000 turns of 22 ga. magnet wire on 4" pvc with a heighth of 26 5/8". We 
have an 8" gazing ball or 4" aluminum flex duct for a topload. We built a 
strike rail around the primary out of  #2 bare copper. Will this work, and 
what kind of capacitors do we need. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
Thanks.