Conductive Paint

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Carbon paint, conductive. Has any one tried it? They advertise the silver pen. I've seen it on Burnt Lattke I think. Easy spark strip just paint.
Some other conductive stuff too.





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Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:07 am

Nah mate carbon paint isent that conductive.

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Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:13 am

how is painting easyier than glueing in a small diametre copper tube for example and copper is a better conductor.
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Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:00 am

Actually silver and gold are better conductors than copper, but those silver oxide pens are so expensive :?

I rmember a while ago someone popped a CD into a microwave, and used the resulting mangled CD as a spark strip...worked pretty well judging by the pics.
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Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:59 am

Silver oxide is a real bastard mate! It corrodes to quickly and has a really low flash point.

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Thanks for the info

The copper strips looked easy w/self stick
Put a spiral of it up the chamber then make cuts creating tiny gaps...
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Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:53 am

yeah matr but you need to get the copper to earth onto something.

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Thru bolts like any other spark set up...
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