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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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