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Old 11th Jan 2019, 4:32 pm   #19
rontech
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Default Re: Old books/magazines and the gems within

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Originally Posted by avocollector View Post
Not to worry - get a spark coil from your local car wreckers or dealers, use a relay wired so it turns off and on as the voltage interrurpter all hooked up to your 12v battery charger and you too can join in the fun!!
I am sure that would work. A lot of the fun and sense of achievement I got in my teens was actually winding the coils, making a core out of lengths of iron wire, making a brass spring / steel interrrupter arm etc. The finished winding was put in a vat of molten candle wax to increase the interlayer insulation. I doubt if soft iron wire, 36 s.w.g. enamelled copper wire is readily available nowadays. Oh and also made a polished oak base .
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