I suggest you mark the edges of the plates that you are *not* removing with
paint, or something, to make sure you end up with symmetrical spacing. You
remove pairs of *adjacent* plates.

Tam/WB2TT
"Space Charge" wrote in message
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Most ingenious. Thank you, Ivan!

On 27 Nov 2003 00:03:20 -0800, (OK1SIP) wrote:

Hi Lin,
use a relatively common air-spaced AM capacitor, also one with
deformed plates and temporary short-circuits can be used. Rip out two
plates of every three, both from stator and rotor, evenly spaced. This
way the spacing of plates triples.

BR from Ivan OK1SIP

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