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Re: Better bottle caps
..they use aluminium powder in pyrotechnics,
when I was 15 I did some also with it,
and results where impressive. It burns like h**l !
would someone use it near any spark ?
me not
I think whe should mantain coiling as safe as possible
It has so much hazards itself...
but it's only my opinion :=)
ciao all
Daniele
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Date: luned́ 29 maggio 2000 5.53
Subject: RE: Better bottle caps
>Original Poster: "Richard Barton" <richardbarton-at-caving5.freeserve.co.uk>
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>Original Poster: "Dan and Nancy" <ntesla-at-logicsouth-dot-com>
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>At 06:57 PM 5/27/00 -0600, you wrote:
>>Original Poster: "Richard Barton" <richardbarton-at-caving5.freeserve.co.uk>
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>>well, yes, they would work, but I would imagine that you wouldn't get a
>very
>>good capacitance cos think of the
>>area of the stuff that is NOT in contact with the glass. Surely you would
>>get lots of "hot spots".
>> Richard.
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>>Original Poster: Mouser25-at-aol-dot-com
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>>would copper bb's work for a bb gun?
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>Dudez,
>You can get very fine aluminum powder at a paint store, and I think other
>powdered metals also. It's a little messy to work with, but I've used it to
>fill glass electrodes in plasma globes and it works great. There's no
>reason I can think of to not use it in a bottle cap. One thing though, the
>powder is so fine that if it's in the air floating around it can be
>flammable. I believe I'd still put oil or epoxy or something on the top of
>the powder in the bottles to keep the air away.
>Also, I saw plans a long time ago for van de graaf terminals that used
>varnish mixed with a great deal of aluminum powder. Almost like aluminum
>glue, I'd guess. You could mix a lot of that powder with some varnish or
>polyurethane and coat the insides and outsides of your bottles with it and
>let it dry. That would probably work better than filling the bottles with
>just the powder.
>Hope this helps,
>Dan Kline
>ntesla-at-logicsouth-dot-com
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>Hi Dan
> If you mix aluminium powder with something inflammable like
>varnish...... isn't that getting towards rocket booster fuel ?
> Richard.
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