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Any Coilers in Adelaide or Melbourne Australia on this list?


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From:  Peter Electric [SMTP:elekessy-at-macquarie.matra-dot-com.au]
Sent:  Tuesday, March 17, 1998 4:17 AM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Any Coilers in Adelaide or Melbourne Australia on this list?

Hi Matt,

I'm based in Canberra unfortunately but I can sympathise with your
problems. My wife thinks I'm mad also. She calls it "that damn noisy
thing" but I have some good news for you about TC parts. 6 and 10" PVC
can be bought by the metre here, around $10 for 6" and Al flashing is
available at the bigger hardware places. Poly sheeting in thick sizes is
expensive but clear poly in 8 thou is available by the truckload from
most hardware places as concreters underlay etc. Just use about 6 layers
and you're laughing.

Look me up if you ever get up this way.

Cheers, Peter E.

Tesla List wrote:

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> From:  Matthew Mills [SMTP:mattmills-at-mindless-dot-com]
> Sent:  Monday, March 16, 1998 8:29 PM
> To:  Tesla List
> Subject:  Any Coilers in Adelaide or Melbourne Australia on this list?
>
> Hi I am moving to Adelaide soon and would like to be able to get in
> contact with someone who lives close to Adelaide who is interested in
> Tesla coiling.  It is such a lonely hobby when I am the only Tesla
> coiler I have met.  Plus maybe if I could prove to my wife that I'm
> not
> the only fool who plays around with HV electricity she might
> understand
> my hobby a little bit better or at least accept it!!!
> It would be great to get together.
>
> Also do people know how easy it is to find materials for tesla coils
> in
> Australia?  In New Zealand I have had such a hard time finding parts.
> Neons are non-existant second hand and new ones cost $250.  Pole pigs
> are impossible to get.  Capacitors are out of the question as
> Aluminium
> foil is no longer made in New Zealand (I went to Ulrich aluminium) and
>
> Polyethylene sheet is outrageously expensive.  Commercial ones are a
> dream.  Ferrite chokes cant be found and Variacs well the 5A ones are
> $900 so I would hate to hazard a guess as to the price of a 30A one
> (BTW
> I saw a 240V 44A variac for sale on the net for $130US WOW!!!) but at
> 75lbs it would cost more to ship than a car!
> 10 inch pvc pipes are $300 and the end caps for 8 inch pvc are $90
> each!!
>
> Well Im beyond hacked off.....Im fuming this is so frustrating..I just
>
> hope Aussie treats my hobby better.
>
> Matt.