[NewCandle] New stuff for new year?

[Kyle R. Mcallister]

Nick Reiter wrote:

> It looks like the old soteria.com site has been
> replaced with a damned fine archive and sleek web
> portal:
> 
> http://www.qualight.com/portal.htm
> 
> The Brown family archives:
> 
> http://www.qualight.com/library.htm

Ah, glad for the links. The document I was going to post is there for 
all to read:

http://www.qualight.com/petro/battery.htm

Most of these documents I've read, experimented based on, and so forth. 
Very interesting stuff.

> Now, regarding litharge.  In about 1999 - 2000 I built
> some large (about 5 pound) conical "gravitator" units
> with litharge.  As with all of my other >20kV tests,
> it ended up being virtually impossible to disentangle
> ionic and coulomb force effects from something I could
> peg as anomalous. 

At these kinds of voltages, just containing the charge spray becomes a 
serious task. The highest voltages I've gone up to were around 
250-300kV, bipolar supplies I built myself. Dangerous as well, when the 
possibility exists for a spark to reach out 7+ inches and grab you. I 
have been shocked by the full output of that supply. It wasn't very much 
fun.

The biggest block-style 'gravitators' I used weighed probably 12-15 
pounds. The blocks were made with dielectric powders, either litharge or 
barium titanate, bound in paraffin or beeswax. I did find some strange 
things re: the directionality of the device. It is not always towards 
the positive pole.

Strongest thrusts I ever managed would move a 4"x4"x2" thick block of 
litharge-wax on one end of a four foot long torsion bar made from a pine 
1x2 would turn the thing about 120 degrees around the monofilament line 
holding it to the ceiling.

> Somewhere herebouts I have a couple
> pounds of litharge I would happily donate if I could
> figure out some way to legally send it to you.  Might
> be easier to buy some from Alfa Aesar or even United
> Nuclear (Bob115 now lives in Michigan, BTW)  As far as
> I am concerned, while U-N and the Bob might be a
> monitored operation, he sells quality chemicals at
> good prices, that are still legal to own.  Plus he can
> ship them legally, which with litharge, I don't think
> I could (at least not pounds of the stuff).  And hey,
> we are all monitored anyway (thumbing his nose to the
> 4th wall)

I've got a lot of litharge left, about 30 pounds of it in a bucket. 
Appreciate the offer though. Hmm...United Nuclear. I'll have to look 
online and see what they're all about.

--Kyle