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Electroplating - why bother?
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Subject: Electroplating - why bother?
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 23:05:13 -0500
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From: RODERICK MAXWELL [SMTP:tank@magnolia.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 10:30 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Electroplating - why bother?
Tesla List wrote:
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> From: Bill Noble [SMTP:william_b_noble@email.msn.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 7:53 PM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Re: Electroplating - why bother?
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> if you have a really nice torus anyway, why electroplate it - just coat
> the wood with gold foil - it's cheap, available from any art store and will
> make a really neat finish which will, of course, be quite conductive. you
> just lay the sheets onto a thin layer of gum arabic and burnish lightly. I
> suspect thin aluminum or silver foil or tin foil will work fine also. As
> another thought, there are spray on conductive coatings which you can buy in
> small cans for around $20 per can - they are used for EMI suppression.
> Don't have a reference handy.
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> for my 2 cents, I'd go with gold foil - you could always claim it's solid
> gold that way
I have thought of the same thing. Kind of expensive though. At these
freqs. and voltages the adhesive would not interfere with the conduction
of the discharge. I will investigate this method.
Frankensteins Helper
Max