plastic homebrew caps

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Original poster: "Ben Ziegler by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <crossguy-at-hotmail-dot-com>

Hi all,

In reading about MMC's, I think I recall that they use polypropelyne 
dielectrics?

For my coil, I was thinking about a homebrew cap.  glass bottles are lossy, 
so, thinks I, why not use PETE, HDPE, or PP bottles instead of glass?  any 
input?

ben z
(who will willfully ignore any 'just buy an MMC already' replies from the 
Geeks :)
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