Photos of Components

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Original poster: "Medina, Benjamin (UMR-Student)" <bamxbb@xxxxxxx>

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Hello,

These are some photos of the Primary, Secondary, Capacitor, and Rotary 
Spark Gap. I would like to hear your honest opinion about these. Your 
comments will be appreciated.

Primary
If you notice, the strike rail of the primary is soldered. I know there has 
to be a gap so we plan on doing that over the break. Also, we could only 
get a 50' roll of 0.25"OD refrigeration copper tubing so you can also 
notice the solder spots (splice). There is actually 2 spots. I bought a 10' 
roll thinking it was going to be enough but it wasn't, so we bought another 
10' roll.

Secondary
If you notice, there are a couple of "white spots" or spacing between some 
of the wounds. This happened when I was first winding the 22 AWG wire using 
the lathe. It gets better as we go up the secondary.

Caps
12"x12" glass plates with aluminum foil. I am definitely going to get the 
MMC caps. I still haven't decided from where though. But I have a couple of 
links I hope I can purchase these from. Should we even try our coil with 
these glass plates or just go with the MMC caps (for the 1st trial)?

Spark Gap
1/12 hp, 115 V, 3 A, 3000 RPM, 60 Hz motor from QUANTUM.
1/8" think pure tungsten electrodes (had a hard time trying to cut the 
tungsten into small pieces . You can notice the irregularity at the ends of 
the tungsten in the rotor disk). What do you think of the idea/setup? I 
want to remove that copper wire used for the connection and use another 
type of wire or strip. What do you suggest? 22 AWG wire? Brass strip?

Thanks,
Ben Medina