http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/ Van de Graaff Generators Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:40:28 GMT Richard Linder http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2493 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2493 Jim: Re soldering etc: I am not positive all that fussing was really a major contributor to the success. However, considering how infectious corona is I wanted Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:08:49 GMT jimbobmw01 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2492 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2492 Dick Thanks for your response. I have already fabricated a ring as you suggested, but just have the globe setting on it. Did all the soldering and grinding Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:28:24 GMT Richard Linder http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2491 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2491 Jim: My first VDG used an 18” stainless garden globe. I had all kinds of leakage at the edge of the hole in the globe. I tried coating the sharp edge with Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:46:18 GMT jimbobmw01 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2490 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2490 After a few months working with (or for) my 8 year old grandson, we have completed my first VDG. We are getting fairly constant 3-4" arcs, and an occasional 8" Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:45:57 GMT jimbobmw01 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2489 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2489 Just completed my first VDG. Has a 14" globe made from a garden globe, 36" x 4" pvc column. Rollers are turned from Teflon, with the upper covered with Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:17:47 GMT n1ltv http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2488 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2488 ... Derrik, This is probably due to the fact that your Wimshurst is equipped with one or two capacitors which store considerable energy in excess of what could Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:39:16 GMT Derrik Walker v2.0 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2487 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2487 My wife got me a small wimshurst machine for X-Mas. It's pretty cool. The one thing that shocks me, is I estimated that it is only putting out around 30 - 40 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:45:42 GMT ToddA http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2486 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2486 Hello Mark, Welcome to the group, as Dick said, look through the Archives and check out the files and the photos sections to get some very, very good Ideas. I Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:44:21 GMT Richard Linder http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2485 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2485 Welcome Mark; Suggestions??:: study the archives. There is a wealth of info there, mostly very fascinating and enough to actually write a "How To" manual. You Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:26:23 GMT marksmub http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2484 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2484 Wow, I have learnt so much more now in the last hour ! I have always wanted to build a VDG, age 46 finally getting round to it! Any suggestions would be Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:43:15 GMT ToddA http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2483 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2483 Hello Everyone, I haven't done much with the VDG's lately but I have been working on my static electric motor. It is a simple drink bottle with aluminum tape Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:08:28 GMT AlienRelics http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2482 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2482 Here, here! I've been silently lurking, getting together parts to build a VdG, following the posts here, absorbing information. This list is the best Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:23:50 GMT Richard Linder http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2481 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2481 Thanks for the pat on the head. Even though I have no plans to build another VDG, the experience of the research, learning and sharing with others is Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:20:08 GMT jacobsmach http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2480 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2480 Even though there has been very little message traffic here for a while, the archives contain a wealth of knowledge that is as valid now as ever. While I am Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:09:32 GMT ToddA http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2479 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/VanDeGraaffGenerator/message/2479 Ned, I have also been using skateboard wheel bearings and while they eventually will leak, they usually start to get 'loud' before they leak so check them for