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Re: RE: Large Tesla Twins For Sale 5 Foot Sparks!
Original poster: Kreso Bukvic <kreso.bukvic-at-kc.htnet.hr>
Especially SSTC-s. My small SSTC can get a sheet of acrylic on fire for
about 2 seconds if i bring it near spark.
Best Regards
Kreso Bukvic
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: RE: Large Tesla Twins For Sale 5 Foot Sparks!
> Original poster: DRIEBEN-at-midsouth.rr-dot-com
>
> Gary,
>
> Well, since you came on out and admitted to doing this little stunt,
> I'll go ahead and make my confession ;^) I also, did the very same
> thing that you did around 9 or 10 years ago! I too didn't even realize
> that the cellulose based insulation in the attic had caught fire until
> I began smelling smoke and finally figured out what had happened. For-
> tunately, the insulation only slowly smoldered, hence the smoke. I ended
> up grabbing a pot full of water and climbing into the attic and extin-
> guishing the smoldering fire. The water left a stain on the sheetrock
> ceiling. And what's so bad is that I'm a professional firefighter who
> had several years of firefighting experinece at the time. Needless to
> say, I never got around to mentioning my little "stunt" to any of my
> fellow co-workers.
>
> Another time, I was operating my big pole pig coil inside of my shop
> and one of the arcs struck the shelving on the wall and I heard a
> little "pop" thru my "mouse ears" hearing protection. Upon examining
> the pop, I found that the pop was a 1 gallon pastic bottle of wind-
> shield washer fluid that the spark had penetrated and ignited. The
> fluid was still burning and the flame was hard to see as alcohols
> burn with dim flames. Fortunately, it was easy for me to extinguish
> as it hadn't ignited any of the surrounding combustible building mate-
> rials.
>
> So, just as Gary said, larger Tesla coils can be a fire hazard. Most of
> us think of them from mostly an electrical hazard (and inhalation ha-
> zard because of O3) point of view but I think many may tend to over-
> look the fire hazard when operating a larger coil in a confined space
> with combustible materials in close proximity.
>
> David Rieben
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2004 12:36 pm
> Subject: RE: Large Tesla Twins For Sale 5 Foot Sparks!
>
> > Original poster: "Gary Weaver" <gary350-at-earthlink-dot-net>
> >
> > Are you opering your coil inside of a barn full of hay? Be
> > careful and
> > don't catch the place on fire. I have started fires with my coil.
> > An arc
> > to my sheet rock ceiling started a small fire in the attic that
> > went out on
> > its own. It made a lot of smoke and a bad smell thats how I
> > discovered it.
> > I fired an arc through a pirce of cardboard and set it on fire.
> >
> > Gary Weaver
> > gary350-at-earthlink-dot-net
> > Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.
> >
> >
> > > [Original Message]
> > > From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > > Date: 5/31/2004 8:28:48 PM
> > > Subject: Large Tesla Twins For Sale 5 Foot Sparks!
> > >
> > > Original poster: "Jim Mitchell" <Electrontube-at-sbcglobal-dot-net>
> > >
> > > Hello List,
> > >
> > > About a month ago, I traded one of my solid state tesla coils,
> > for a set
> > > of large spark gap style twins from Jeff Messer of
> > > <http://www.teslacoil-dot-net>www.teslacoil-dot-net. Gradually, my
> > barn started
> > to
> > > get smaller and smaller as it filled up with my various toys.
> > So I'm
> > > forced to sell these beautiful coils.
> > >
> > > The system is a 900W 15,000v 60mA NST powered twin coil.
> > > This coil will do sparks up to 5' in length from tower to
> > tower. Each
> > coil
> > > has a thick metal sphere as the topload, none of that thin
> > dryer ducting.
> > >
> > > The spark gap is a multi segment TerryGap quenched with a fan.
> > The tank
> > > cap is a MMC constructed with CDE film capacitors for reliability.
> > >
> > > The base is beautiful stained wood, and the coil includes a remote
> > control
> > > so you can stand back safely and control the coils.
> > > Normally when Jeff sells these coils on eBay, he sells them
> > for 1200$ a
> > > set. I am willing to let these go WAY below that price, if
> > anyone is
> > > interested, please E-mail me,
> > > <electrontube-at-sbcglobal-dot-net>electrontube-at-sbcglobal-dot-net
> > >
> > > Here are some pictures of this particular coil:
> > >
> > <http://www.hot-streamer-dot-com/electrontube/temp/tc1.jpg>www.hot-
> > streamer-dot-com/electrontube/temp/tc1.jpg
> > > www.hot-streamer-dot-com/electrontube/temp/tc2.jpg
> > >
> > <http://www.hot-streamer-dot-com/electrontube/temp/tc3.jpg>www.hot-
> > streamer-dot-com/electrontube/temp/tc3.jpg
> > > www.hot-streamer-dot-com/electrontube/temp/tc4.jpg
> > >
> > <http://www.hot-streamer-dot-com/electrontube/temp/tc5.jpg>www.hot-
> > streamer-dot-com/electrontube/temp/tc5.jpg
> > > www.hot-streamer-dot-com/electrontube/temp/tc6.jpg
> > >
> > >
> > > This is the same coil shown at the bottom of the page
> > >
> >
> <http://www.teslacoil-dot-net/Custom.htm>http://www.teslacoil-dot-net/Custom.htm >
> These are "The Towers of Power"
> > > Jeff has hundreds of satisfied customers, and here is your
> > chance to get
> > > one of his coils way below the price he sells them.
> > >
> > > Regards - Jim Mitchell
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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