Re: "black stuff"

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Hi Dave -

Yes, cleaning is required. My problem was running at high power levels with
Cu. Cleaning
was frequent. Once I built over to a G10/tungsten sync gap, I never went
back and won't.
Even though I built a RQ style trigger gap, I only used the tubing for
heatsink purposes
and tungsen for the electrodes.
--
Barton B. Anderson
http://www.classictesla-dot-com


Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<davep-at-quik-dot-com>
>
> Tesla list wrote:
>
> > Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
> > Hi Ted -
>
> > I assume you were using copper tubing as electrodes?
> >  Yes, good point. Copper tubing can build up black areas of carbon.
>
>         Carbon, or one of the copper oxides? (there are several, some
>         of them are black...)  May not matter if carbon or oxide, might
>         help with cleaning....
>
>         best
>         dwp