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RE: Advice on Primary

Original poster: "Ken Jenkins" <thecompman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

what worked great for me is to thread your drilled supports onto the copper
coil as it comes,
starting from the inside. kind of like putting keys on a key chain. THEN
mount your supports
to the base. Good luck

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From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 11:29 AM
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Subject: Re: Advice on Primary


Original poster: DGOODFELLOW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Just go to ebay item 3876713162 and place a bid. You can probably have them
for
about the price of a bag of wire ties, and the seller is a nice guy :-)








Quoting Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>:

 > Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmdq@xxxxxxxxxx>
 >
 > Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > >Original poster: "Medina, Benjamin (UMR-Student)" <bamxbb@xxxxxxx>
 > >I know this topic has already been discussed but I am still having
doubts
 > >when it comes to the winding of the copper tubing through the holes or
 > >notches of the supports. So if someone could clear this up for me that
 > >would be very much appreciated.
 >
 > I'm sure that you will receive adequate indications on how to make
 > a nice primary coil with copper tubing.
 > But note that it's not necessary at all to use copper tubing to make
 > a perfectly working primary coil. Given the huge losses in a spark
 > gap, even a primary coil made with relatively thin wire will work in
 > the same way. You will need instruments to see any difference from,
 > say, #10 wire, in a not very large Tesla Coil.
 >
 > Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
 >
 >
 >
 >