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Re: New fangled flexigap?



to: Will

Lots of beer and high voltages don't mix under any condition.  Might as
well drive drunk and wonder why the train ran over you.

DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net


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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: RE: New fangled flexigap?
> Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 5:02 PM
> 
> Original Poster: "Payne, Will E" <will.e.payne-at-lmco-dot-com> 
> 
> 
> > Hey Will,
> >  I think you are onto something new - the flexi-gap!
> > 
> > I've not heard of this before...
> > 
> > Good luck with the beers.  Will you soon be trying out any other 
> > hydrocarbon solvents?? :)
> > 
> 	<snip>
> 
> > Original Poster: "Payne, Will E" <will.e.payne-at-lmco-dot-com> 
> > 
> > Last night I glued 13 RQ electrodes on a strip of 1/8 in thick
> > glass-composite salvaged from a yard transformer. I spaced the gaps at
> > 0.008, and by bending the strip, I can get the gaps up to about 0.050 
> > and still have them fairly uniform.  I had several beers in me by the 
> > time the glue was applied, plus irregular edges on my shims from the 
> > tin snips kinda skewed my spacing a bit.  
> > 
> 	<snip>
> 
> 	The tweaked spacing on the gaps measures 0.008 +/- 0.002 unflexed.  
> 	I can flex the strip and get them out to 0.040 with +/- 0.005 with
> care.
> 	The trick to uniform expansion seems to be to torque the ends of the
> 
> 	strip and compress it longitudinally, rather like an archer's bow,
> instead
> 	of pushing from beneath.
> 
> 	Due to domestic issues, neither the beer nor the TC received much 
> 	attention last night, but I shall return !!
> 
> 	Will
>