Re: "best" former material?

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Original poster: "Ray von Postel by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <vonpostel-at-prodigy-dot-net>


Dunckx.:
Thanks for the information.  I seem to remember that Bud also had a similar
product.
The old catalogues I have don't show any thing that could be used for a
Tesla coil because
of the small diameter and length.  i.e.. not enough inductance.

Ray


Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Dr. Duncan Cadd by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <dunckx-at-freeuk-dot-com>
>
> Hi Ray, All!
>
> >At one time, and maybe it is still available, you could
> >buy coil stock for building Ham transmitters.  These
> >were windings of bare, silver plated, or enameled wire,
> >space wound, and held in position by 3 or 4 bars of what I
> >took to be polystyrene running down the length of the
> >winding.  They were not suitable for Tesla coils because of
> >the low inductance.
>
> Barker & Williamson "miniductor" - try
>
> http://www.bwantennas-dot-com/coilcat.htm
>
> and their "airdux" range is what you want, some (>700 turns) suitable
> for small TCs but at a price!!  Should be very high Q and just the job
> for CW, expensive though.  I can see problems if the thing gets hot
> and the bars start softening, but it will take a lot of power to do
> that.
>
> Dunckx