Re: Hmmmm...(was CDE 942c20p15k Group buy)

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Original poster: "john cooper" <tesla-at-tesla-coil-dot-com> 

Richard Hull has done some work with magnetically quenched gaps and you can 
find it on one or two of his tapes, there must be others that have 
documented similar work but his is the only that I know of.


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From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date:  Fri, 21 May 2004 19:11:54 -0600

 >Original poster: "Christoph Bohr" <cb-at-luebke-lands.de>
 >
 >Hello all.
 >
 >Yes, this is definitely true, but these days I didn't have an idea what a TC
 >was and how those magnets
 >could be used for that. But I took all the disks apart to observe the demage
 >and took the magnets from them
 >These are really very strong ones but mostly pretty odd-shaped.
 >The other thing is, in a computer shop you don't make friends by running
 >around with magnets *hehe*
 >I still have some of them sitting on my desk, maybe when I find time.....
 >but probably not.
 >
 >But you are of course right, I too made the error of destryoing valuable
 >ressources...
 >mea cupla, mea maxima culpa ;-)
 >
 >Best regards
 >
 >Christoph
 >
 >
 >
 > > Original poster: "Arpit Thomas" <arpit-at-inzo-dot-org>
 > >
 > > DUde! you could have used the magnets in them for a magnetic quenched
 >spark
 > > gap!
 > > I'm serous - everyone contemplating a magnetic quenched spark gap should
 > > look at old hard drives. They contain moderately sized neodymium boron
 > > magnets, which are strong, to say the least.
 >
 >
 >