Re: A newbie question

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Original poster: robert & june heidlebaugh <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com> 

Greg: the beer bottle caps are made in two general ways ,1. the bottles are
wraped with foil outside or 2, a tub of salt water is used as the outside
contact. In both cases the neck is used to insulate the bottles and not
filled to the top to avoid salt water on the glass contacting the inside
layer . A topping of oil helps keep the top clean and dry. If the top is not
real clean the voltage will run over the glass and short out.
    Robert   H       A cheep project, but messy and large in size.
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 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:14:45 -0600
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: Re: A newbie question
 > Resent-From: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:20:05 -0600
 >
 > Original poster: Gregory Hunter <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >
 > Hello Greg,
 >
 > A Swiss coiler? This may be a first for the list! I've
 > gotten good results with beer bottle caps. You might
 > want to use a beer bottle cap to get started with, and
 > eventually upgrade your system with a polypropylene
 > mult-mini cap. Besides being much smaller and lighter,
 > the MMC also gives better performance than a saltwater
 > cap.
 >
 > Feel free to browse my site for beer bottle cap
 > information.
 >
 > Best Regards,
 >
 > Greg
 > http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg
 >
 > --- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 >> Original poster: "Gergely Nagy"
 >> <gergely.nagy-at-bluewin.ch>
 >>
 >> Hi All,
 >>
 >> 3. The other hardnut is the capacitor (as everywhere
 >> else). I found the
 >> description of the beer-bottle capacitor in George's
 >> booklet and I think
 >> it'd be OK to build it. There is just one thing
 >> which is not clear. So when
 >> bottles are filled up and are in the "dishpan" and
 >> its filled up too to
 >> within about 0.25" of the top, do you have to seal
 >> the "dishpan"? Otherwise
 >> if I got it right, the interconnected bottle
 >> terminals is one pole and the
 >> metal inside of the "dishpan" is the other.   OR
 >> Would you rather suggest
 >> to buy the capacitor? Since it wouldn't be a big TC
 >> I am sure that I won't
 >> need a 0.3uF 35Kv capacitor. How can I figure out
 >> what I need?
 >>
 >> Greg
 >> a humble newbie
 >
 >