RassaFrassa#$^-at-&!!!

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Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com> 

Hi All,

I was just sizing up my 15" coil for recycling into a maggie.  The 
secondary had 454 turns of #14 and a Fr of 110-120KHz.  I was thinking of 
stripping it to 200 turns, and reusing the 9 turn 3/8" tubing primary.

The secondary must of had second thoughts, as it just fell over, damaging 
all the poly in a nice line all the way up to the top.  At least copper is 
paying good at the scrap yard, as I now have 30# of it.

The business end of the plan is going to be a 6" coil with 1000T of #26, 
with a 34x8" torrid from the bulk buy.  Both the driver and base of the 
extra coil will have corona rings sized to the diameter. (Yes, they will 
have a gap.)  The extra coil pedastal will raise the base of the coil 
approx 4-4 1/2' above the ground.  Power, at least to start, will be the 
coils original 15/120 NST supply with a SRSG using two sets of 
electrodes.  I would like to go with a set of Maxwell type caps, but I 
still have enough room in the base for a MMC.

David E Weiss