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Re: some Ideas



On Mon, 22 May 2000 08:14:45 -0600, you wrote:

>Original Poster: "Kevin D" <teslacoilfreak1-at-mediaone-dot-net> 
>
>Hello everyone,
>
>I was brainstorming for ideas on what I could do with my  coil when it was
>finished and I thought that putting some kind of nozzle in my toroid and
>then connecting the nozzle to a bottle of inert gas via plastic tubing would
>produce some interesting results. Has anyone tried this? does anyone see any
>problems or dangers?
>
>I was also thinking that I could connect the nozzle to a bottle of propane
>and then lighting the propane and turning on the coil would produce some
>real interesting effects.Has any tried this? I won't even ask about the
>dangers of doing this the dangers are real obvious.something  to be done
>outside!!
>
I have some argon experiments on my site - www.electricstuff.co.uk -
click on 'fun with argon'

mostly fairly disappointing, but lighting up coloured plastic tubing
with Argon can look quite cool. 

If you want to play with flammables, be careful!  I'd suggest maybe
using small gas-lighters on the toroid.