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Supplies For Coil Building:American Science & Surplus - An old classic with a little bit of everything.
C & H Sales Co. - A variety of electronics surplus components.
CBC Metal Supply Co. - COOL looking colored magnet wire (but I am not sure if anyone has used this for a coil or not).
D&M's High Voltage - Various coil components and complete tesla coil kits (assembled & unassembled).
Digi-Key - Electronic Component Distributor.
The Geek Group - High quality caps for making MMC's for your coil. Email Chris for specifics.
Herbach & Rademan - Electro-mechanical components, electronic kits, CCTV and scientific equipment.
Hosfelt Electronics Inc. - Various items, sometimes they have GREAT prices on caps (not found online, only seen in catalog).
Information Unlimted - Various weird toys including some Tesla coils.
International Plastics - More various plastic rods, tubes and sheets (including phenolic).
McMaster Carr - Anything construction and with decent prices (a must visit)!
Mousser Electronics - Everything elctronic.
MSC Industrial Supply Co. - Anything construction and with very good prices (another must visit)!
Unites States Plastics Corp. - Everything plastic (good for various plastic tubes and sheets).
USA Manufacturing - Great place for super cheap PFC and microwave oven caps!
Waterscapes Web - Shatterproof, non-tarnishing, durable, stainless steel balls (cheap).
Coiling Links:
Brent Turner - Look in the "Photo Gallery" at his GORGEOUS coil (images - "BGCOIL??.JPG) Sweet!
Dr. Mega Volt - This guy is wild! Some big coils here.
Finn Hammer - Nice coil with some inovative design (read about the RAT).
Frank Germano - HUGE site loaded with tons of Tesla info (including some coiling stuff)! See the "Nicola Tesla LINKS".
John Freau - The "efficiency" expert! Creator of the "sync gap electrical remote phase controller". A very helpfull coiler!
kVA Effects - The World's leader in theatrical lightning generation (BIG time coils with some nice video footage).
Lightning On Demand - Large coil specialists (dig around and you'll find some cool pictures).
MWS Wire Industries - Not coil related but contains good info on feet/lb and diam/AWG for many different insulation builds.
Richie Burnett - Nice coil, with good animations of how a coil works.
Sam Barro - See a small twin tesla coil system.
Terry Fritz The experimentor, documentor and keeper of the spice for many things tesla coil related. Another very helpfull coiler!
Tesla Coil Mailing List - A MUST for the avid coiler! Sign up for the list (it's free) and be in the loop of current coiling developements and help others with info you may have acquired.
Twenty First Century Books - A huge variety of books on everything Tesla related (even some posters). Also see the 'Links' link for a boatload of Tesla related sites.
Voltnet.com - A good coiling site with movies and links to other coiling sites.
File(s):
TC_Designer.xls - An EXCELLENT excel spreadsheet to have handy for any coil builder! User enters values in the yellow cells and results are output in the cyan cells. Includes a MMC calculator and a wire guage table. (Author Corey Ruch?)