Re: Teflon as RSG-disk material

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Original poster: "BunnyKiller by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bunikllr-at-bellsouth-dot-net>



Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: "Christoph Bohr by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <cb-at-luebke-lands.de>
>
>Has anyone tried this before???
>
>I wondered if teflon would be a good material for making my new RSG disk...
>I searched the web for this but only found G10 and tufnol disks, both
>materials I can't get hold of.
>Teflon has very good heat resistance properties but does it have enough
>strength to carry four 1/4" electrodes on a 12" dia, 1/2" thick teflon disk
>at 3000rpm .....
>
>any suggestions welcome.
>
>sincerely
>
>Christoph Bohr
>
Hi Christoph..

and the answer is    no ...   way too soft for this kind of application

go with G-10  ...

Scot D