Re: [TCML] can you help my son and i with this Please

["Bill Noble" <william_b_noble@xxxxxxx>]

Eric - most of us start small - you don't' need donations, and you don't 
need more stuff.

you need wire - $5 or so will get you the wire you need from a surplus 
place, or unwind a transformer or other coil and get it free.

you need a spark gap - two nails and a piece of wood will work (not as well 
as fancier stuff, but it will work)

you need a cap - beer bottles (or milk bottles) with brine will work

you need wire for a primary - scrounge some old electrical wire - whatever 
you can find

for a first toy though, make jacob's ladders - all you need are 2 coat 
hangers and your neon sign xformer


start with the small stuff, ask questions about that, then consider bigger


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Knutson" <ericknutson@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 5:42 PM
> Subject: [TCML] can you help my son and i with this Please
>
>
> Vary impressive stuff here Wow .
> > May i ask for pointers in making one of these , have wanted to for 20 
> > years , well i have
> > wife now and a 10 inch pvc tube . but thats all i have , my son is 14 and 
> > wants to build
> > one with me . i can maybe buy one piece at a time every other payday 
> > maybe . Is there
> > any change you can help me with direction and size on the build . not 
> > sure how to
> > connect 2 neon transformers together eather . also i Humbly ask are there 
> > any parts you
> > could donate to help us build one . any tansformers or a rotary spark gap 
> > , caps ? was thinking
> > about using one or 15000v 60 Ma , but think with with the size of pipe i 
> > sholud use 2 what do
> > you think . Sinerly Your Friend Eric A Knutson
>
>
>
>
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