primary connection affecting output?

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Original poster: "Laurence Davis by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <meknar-at-hotmail-dot-com>

This sounds like an idiot question, but...

if your primary connection is poor (i'm not sure how to solder
it); its just pressing up against the wire and maybe twisted a little.
primary is 1/4" copper tubing and the connection to it is 6gauge stranded 
pushed into the end.

I tried wrapping a helical primary with 12gauge stranded wire.
thought i'd get racing, but alas I was not as lucky. :)

powered by 12kv/60ma nsts and 12nf cap.

any ideas?

larry.