Re: First light 2

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "Jason by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>

Sorry, I forgot to mention that it is the air in the cracks that causes
shorting. A spark jumps across the air/tar junction, burning the tar,
causing a line of carbon which the charge flows through

Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:09 AM
Subject: RE: First light 2


> Original poster: "Garry Freemyer by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <garry-at-ndfc-dot-com>
>
> Having depotted three, usually they use kerosene or mineral spirits.
>
> It's really really messy I gotta warn ye. Rather than disolving the tar
out
> I'm going to just melt what I can get out and then replace the tar removed
> with mineral oil. I have a theory that the real culprit in shorting isn't
> the tar so much as it is the cracks that appear in the tar that let little
> pockets of air that can quickly become ionized that conduct a spark that
> burns a carbon track in the tar that is only removed when the tar is
> removed.
>
> If ye want to disolve the tar out, I might reccomend putting some sort of
> vibrator on the container to help lossen the tar. It took me weeks to get
> all the tar out. Meanwhile it got on the floor, the carpet of the
APARTMENT,
> and on the drapes, on the bottom of my shoes, in my car, on the back seat,
> on the round of wood I used for the tesla coil enclosure and on the fence.
> Reminded me of the blob - it's alive, it moves and travels faster than the
> speed of light.
>
> tar can be removed from many surfaces, hands and carpet with a little dab
of
> margerine.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:53 AM
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: First light 2
>
>
> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <rblaisdell-at-juno-dot-com>
>
> Thanks for all the help on how to cure NST's.
> When depotting a NST, I would assume(I don't like to assume) that one
> melts as much tar out and then uses some sort of volatile solvent to get
> the rest off.
> What  solvents have been found to be good for this?
>
> Peace,
> -------Ry--------
>
>
>
>
>