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To: Mani1 who wrote (77916)	4/22/2002 2:58:10 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Yes, originally a "sparky." In fact, when I was a kid I dreamed of making a million volt Tesla coil. It was the mechanical parts that tripped me up -- getting a mechanical magnetic oscillator to make and break the primary, made of pieces of steel cut from tin cans, etc. When I finally got that working I found that the layers of the secondary coil were self-shorting to eachother because I didn't use the recommended "parafin paper." They didn't have that at Radio Shack or Layayette Electronics. When I visited Germany at age 10 there was a museum in Munich that had a huge Tesla coil that filled a large room and generated 20' sparks. Petz