Re: Don't throw out the oven!

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Original poster: "Mr Viggy by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <LittleViggy-at-alum.manhattan.edu>

But, wouldn't a microwave oven be designed to keep microwaves inside, 
not the complete RF range?

Viggy

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "J. B. Weazle McCreath by way of Terry Fritz "
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> Hello Coilers,
>
> While parting out yet another microwave oven I'd been given by the
> local Salvation Army (one can never have too much "stuff") I had a
> thought about a use for the actual housing itself.
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> Since the oven part is designed to keep the R.F. inside, it should
> do an equally good job of keeping R.F. out.  In other words, it is
> a ready made faraday cage!  A great place to put anything that you
> don't want zapped while firing your Tesla coil!
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