OT: Sheet metal and UNF screws (was Re: PET and the IEEE-488 interface)

[Philip Pemberton]

In message <16973.38648.101163.78847 at gargle.gargle.HOWL>
          Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote:

> Hm.  It's easy enough to find here, at an electrical supply shop.  For
> that matter, welder cable comes much thicker than that and nicely
> flexible, too.

It's not supposed to be flexible - it's for the electrodes. Two pieces of #6
(5mm dia) copper wire, with one end ground down to a 1/32 rounded point.

I can see two possibilities - either the 2.5mm wire will work fine, or it
will blast itself apart when the capacitor array dumps 50-odd (or was it 70?
need to crunch the numbers again) watt-seconds through it.

Later.
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