Re: humor, was:Re: Transformers for sale

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Original poster: dgoodfellow-at-highstream-dot-net 

I vividly remember running my very first Tesla coil, a 3"x12" tube with
perhaps only about 400 turns of wire on it, a toilet tank float for a
topload, and a glass plate capacitor that I made from discarded store
showcase shelving, aluminum foil, and motor oil. My friend Greg had to get
dangerously close to the coil to press the glass plates together firmly with
the best high voltage insulator available at the moment, (the plunger out of
the bathroom), to keep down the interplate arcing that kept happening, which
would often split some of the glass plates. Everything was layed out across
the dining table, and hooked up with Radio Shack jumper clips. That coil
with its amazing 10 inch sparks, was enough to keep us all up until 2:00 in
the morning. Those were the days.....


Dave Goodfellow

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Subject: RE: humor, was:Re: Transformers for sale


 > Original poster: "Daniel A. Kline" <daniel_kline-at-med.unc.edu>
 >
 >
 >
 >  > -----Original Message-----
 >  > From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
 >  > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 7:10 PM
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 >  > Subject: Re: humor, was:Re: Transformers for sale
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > I plan to build an SSTC some day after some of my other
 >  > many projects
 >  > are completed, but still consider the spark-gap kind as the only "real
 >  > TC"s" in spite of the magnificent performance some of the guys are
 >  > getting solid state.  I built my first coil in 1941, stolen NST and
 >  > glass plate capacitor, and my last mini coil only a year or so ago.
 >  > Hard to relize that first coil was only 42 years after
 >  > Colorado Springs,
 >  > of which I'd never heard at the time, and over 62 years ago.
 >  > Time flies
 >  > when you're having fun!
 >  >
 >  > Ed
 >  >
 >  > Glider pilot, sometime canoeist (sp????), muzzle-loading gun shooter,
 >  > antique radio collector, antique book collector, microwave enthusiast,
 >  > etc. etc.  Old or new they're all fun........
 >
 > In 1941? While Tesla was still alive? If I recall correctly, the first
 > "coil-plans for the masses"
 > were written up by Kenneth Sweezy for, ummm, Popular Science, maybe? And
 > I think he got the plan from Tesla himself. I know there were lots of
 > other coil plans before that, but they were mostly in journals or
 > Scientific American. At least that's what I found out, in my research.
 > Do you remember where your plan came from?
 > Thanks,
 > Dan K.
 >
 >
 >