Golden Leaf Top Terminal?

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

My eye was caught with a little gold leaf toy at the store the other day:

http://www.goldvials.com/goldvials/goldvials.htm

Just a little jar filled with mineral oil and a bunch of gold leaf.  Really 
pretty!!  Genuine Colorado gold too ;-))

So that got me thinking about the old thread about coating the top terminal 
with gold leaf...  We wondered if it would just burn off like the aluminum 
in a CD.  Or, maybe just the thin coating ( 2 millionths of an inch 
thick!!) over metal would be protected and would last just fine...  Gold is 
very resilient to electrical burning off...

I was just wondering if anyone every actually "did it"?  and how it worked out?

3.375 x 3.375 sheets of gold leaf can be bought in QTY 25 for about $40.

http://www.zinnober.biz/

You paying for the pounding since that $40 gets you enough gold to make a 
square of gold only 0.001 inch on a side!!!  But just a tiny fraction of 
that "looks" like a lot ;-)))  Somebody can figure out how much 1 billionth 
of a square inch of gold is worth ;-))

But if gold leaf would stand up to arcing, it would be a cool thing to 
cover a top terminal with!!

Cheers,

	Terry