Re: Van de Graaff /Pelletron (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:02:11 -0500
From: Charles Brush <cfbrush@xxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Van de Graaff /Pelletron (fwd)

>Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>
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>Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:03:41 -0800
>From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Van de Graaff /Pelletron (fwd)
>	I still think it would be a waste to destroy a good bench sander, but
>the hand helds are so cheap that I wouldn't care.  By the way, both the
>belt sander and the disk sander make poor men's substituted for a
>milling machine, particularly when working soft materials.  I have an
>old and cheap Sears Dunlab 12" sander which I've even used to shape 1/4"
>CR steel plate on occasion. Just about every construction project here
>uses it for the base or whatever.
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>	Charles, why don't you go ahead with your plans and report the results?
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>Ed



Ed,

  I agree that it would be preferable not to convert  a working sander
if it can be avoided, and a report will definitely be forthcoming
this summer.  My wife and I, and four children (triplets plus
one...all under two years!) live in an apartment in Manhattan, which
is not good for constructing giant high voltage devices.  In the
summer however we spend weekends at a shared family house out in the
country where I keep all my high voltage gear.  I've done a lot of
coiling and stuff out there, and I think a VDG would be an
interesting next project.  Anyway for some fun arcs and sparks, drop
by my site sometime at:   http://www.voltnet.com/

Zap!


Charles