tungsten electrodes needed

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Original poster: "earl rhodes" <earl_1975@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

hello everybody
i have been reading your  posts for quite some time now ,i have 
posted a question before but i feel i must introduce myself properly 
this time first!
my name is earl i am 32   i live in the uk ! i am a completly self 
taught electronics enthusiast who until 18 months or so ago , had 
never heard of a tesla coil or even the man himself in the uk he is 
not mentioned at school or he wasnt when i was there ! i have built a 
coil ! it works ! ish  but i have a  problem! my stationary 
electrodes wear away so fast only a 1 minuit run means repositioning 
them , a demonstration didnt happen today  because the gap wouldnt 
fire from cold as it was worn to wide ,when its opperating you can 
see hot sheres of metal bouncing every where ! im opperating on a
microwave oven transformer with two opposing triplers  giving around 
12kv i am going to rework my primary tomorrow , that should help a 
bit right ? i may only get another 1 1/2 turns is it worth it ?  and 
also i would love to buy some lovely hardwearing electrodes please if 
any body has some  1/4" would be the widest diameter i could use at 
the moment, the length is of course irrelevant
thank you all here is a link  (if i get it right) to a little bad 
quality video there are 14 different tortures to choose from !  all 
at the hands of yours truly!
enjoy
regards
earl
http://www.youtube.com/user/teslaspigeon

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