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Re: [TCML] danger
I think you are referring to me and the black plastic. It was not soft but indeed black. It was also a rod. Not a disk. I was going to use it to mount radial rods for a gap, and was inquiring as to its chances of being conductive at the time, it was found to be conductive. I am well aware of the dangers associated with these gaps, and have made appropriate design considerations to minimize danger. Note, I did not say eliminate. These machines are dangerous and as with anything there is some level of risk. So the best we can do is to be keenly aware of the risks and do our best to keep others and ourselves out of harms way. So when something does go wrong, which something always does eventually, no one is hurt.
Jay Howson
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From: "Jon Danniken" <danniken@xxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [TCML] danger
Date: Tue, Jan 3, 2012 9:26 pm
Bob Svangren wrote:
>
> One coiler wrote of using soft black plastic to build a rotary
> switching system. I can't
> stress enough the dangers of using soft plastics to build the rotary
> disc. At one time, Lexan, poly carbonate was thought to be bullet
> proof and thus was used by many coilers for the rotary disk.
> I have done extensive research in this and found that Lexan or any
> other poly carbonate is the
> absolute wrong thing to use. It is not bullet proof and will also get
> soft and distort with heat.
> I did the bullet test and all it did was dent where the bullet hit
> but the shock wave shattered the lexan like window glass. This was
> after I had a beautiful Lexan rotary gap explode in my lab and I came
> very close to being killed. Read a lot, get informed, use a lot of
> caution. Good luck.
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