The primary and secondary coils… The freshly wound secondary coil. The coil former is 110mm pvc soil pipe, dried, sanded, varnished, sanded, wound and varnished three more times. As usual, the winding jig is made up of junk box stuff, the motor was a little too slow, at only 9rpm, … Continue reading…
It’s usually best to start at the bottom… The base assembly prior to varnishing etc. The coil supports are made from HDPE (chopping boards) and were cut on a table saw which worked quite well. I fixed them to the MDF base using a hot-melt glue gun. The grey socket … Continue reading…
The Spark-Gap Tesla Coil This was my first coil, and required a fair bit of research before building it. It follows the same principles as Tesla’s original coils and turned out to be very impressive when running. The spark gap acts as a very high power, high voltage switch which … Continue reading…
Firstly, this site was not intended to introduce you to the scientist and inventor by the name of Nikola Tesla (pictured left), so I have not bothered to add an introduction to him, if you want to find out more about this great man, try a web search on his … Continue reading…
This was the first project I ever made. It is a model 10v steam engine By Stuart Turner Ltd. As it was made way back in 1980 and I only had hand tools and a tiny Unimat-SL tabletop lathe then, a lot of the difficult stuff was done by a … Continue reading…