RE: Am I courting disaster?

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

Don't take this the wrong way, but...

When I disect things, I approach them from the stand
point that somehow they were manufactured and all I
have to do is reverse the process. Mine could easily
be opened (if I wanted to do this) by removing the two
metal end caps. This is a good approach to any type of
disassembly. Rather than breaking out the hammer, try
to see how it was put together first.

http://www.hot-streamer-dot-com/adam/garage/gap_18kV_1.jpg

Adam

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: "Christopher Boden"
 > <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>
 >
 > That would be me :)
 >
 >
 > I also opened one of the short-fat ones just to see.
 > The only way I've
 > found to open them is dropping them (or use a
 > hammer) a grinder won't even
 > make a dent as the ceramic material they are made of
 > is tougher than you
 > can imagine (staion-post insulators are designed to
 > hold MANY thousand of
 > pounds and these are built of the same stuff,
 > checkout a Lapp Insulator
 > catalogue).