Re: [TCML] Secondary Troubles

[Chip Atkinson <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You can probably just use a scotch brite pad to clean it up.  Scrub it
down dry until it is clean and you should be ok.  Again, what have you got
to lose?  If you feel you would need to make another secondary, then such
an easy attempt at repair is the first thing to try.

Don't get discouraged.  Stuff like that happens to all of us.  I remember
finishing a 10" secondary only to have it self-destruct in seconds when I
tried to tune the thing.  Too much initial power for an initial tune up.
You could see the bright pin points of arcing on the secondary.  The next
coil I made worked much better.

Chip

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Phillip Slawinski wrote:

> I set up my TC today to 'play'.  I think I made a big mistake.  I
> accidentally had the ungrounded low voltage lead from the secondary inside
> the coil form.  To make a long story short my secondary PVC form now has
> some nice tree-like black tracks on the inside of it.  The TC still works,
> and puts out streamers to about three and a half feet or more.
> 
> Is there a way to clean up these tracks?  Should I just abandon that
> secondary and wind a new one?  I've got plenty of wire and plenty of PVC.
> Should I stop coiling for making such a stupid mistake?
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