Re: Winding primary

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br> 

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: Gregory Hunter <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>

 >... Finally, if
 > the first primary looks like a nightmare, discard the
 > Cu tube and try again. You're only out $12 or
 > so--chicken feed in this cash-intensive hobby!

And note that unless your coil is a really big thing, there is no
technical reason to use tubing for the coil. Any reasonably thick
wire is more than enough. All my primaries were made with #18
solid wire (Ok, a 5 kV x30 mA NST doesn't give a lot of power).
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/tesla/tefpprim.jpg
Not a work of art, but cheap and works.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz