Re: Telsa Coil Mailing List Yard Sale - Shrunken Coins Also

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Original poster: "Bert Hickman by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-net>

Jonathan and all,

This is an excellent idea - worthy of duplication!

I will offer 3 shrunken coins, in two separate benefit auctions. All
coins were crushed electromagnetically in a "Quarter Shrinker". Proceeds
from the highest bidders will then be forwarded to Chip! The coins to be
offered are:

1. 2 clad quarters shrunk to the size of a dime - the buyer gets to
choose which state(s). 

2. A new Sacagawea Golden Dollar that's been shrunk to the size of a
nickel! 

Examples of these can be seen on my site at: http://www.teslamania-dot-com
by clicking on the flashing portion of the "Note: Shrunken Coins are Now
Available" sign on the Home page.  The auction starts immediately and
will end on Friday 12/7 at midnight Central Time (USA). Interested
bidders should provide their bids to me directly at my email address.
Make sure you use "Bid for Tesla List Auction" in the Subject Line.

Thanks, good luck, and happy bidding! 

-- Bert --
-- 
Bert Hickman
Stoneridge Engineering
Email:    bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-net
Web Site: http://www.teslamania-dot-com

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Jonathan Peakall by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jpeakall-at-mcn-dot-org>
> 
> Best to send all bids and money to directly to Jonathon who can then forward
> any donations to Chip.  Chip spends "real money" on maintaining the list
so all
> cash should go to him :-)  - Terry
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Terry, I assume if this isn't ok, you'll nuke this post ;-)
> 
> I was thinking today how much I have come to rely on this list. Before I
found
> this list, I had made a small ignition coil powered coil, and in the process
> had trashed several IC's, caps and so on. And it only put out a wimpy brush
> discharge.
> 
> Since I found the list, I built an NST powered small coil, had great success,
> and other than trashing the mov's in my Fritz filter playing with a TSG, I
> haven't really wrecked that much stuff. Methinks without the List, I
would have
> let the smoke out of much more than a few MOVs. Certainly I have been saved a
> great deal of money and effort. So I propose to show my thanks by
starting the
> "Tesla Coil Mailing List Yard Sale".
> 
> I have a 15/60 Allanson NST that I will sell to the highest bidder. The buyer
> will mail that money directly to Chip or Terry, and I will pay the
shipping to
> anywhere reasonable. Remember the money is for the list when bidding! The NST
> is a nice hot one, testing over 8kv a side and pulling a nice thick arc from
> either HV terminal. Paint is good too.
> 
> Maybe if anyone else has some spare stuff laying around we could buy Chip
a new
> hard drive or something!
> 
> My thanks to Chip and Terry for a very fine resource.
> 
> Jonathan Peakall