Part-2 Building a Wimshurst Machine - HIGH Voltage! 

First time I've heard of fuming wood. Thanks for sharing!

Nicely done Mark, never seen that process for colouring wood before, dangerous but very interesting. It's coming on nicely, looking forward to the next installment. Cheers, Jon

You make this all look so easy! Love the build and your shop looks fantastic.

Looking great. This is the third one i have watched you build. Have enjoyed everyone of them.

Great job there Winky. You look sort of like the proverbial mad scientist. When I worked in the evil polluting chemical plant we used ammonia for a refrigerant. We had some big Worthington compressors for the job. They had 16 inch diameter pistons on the power cylinders and I think 14 inch on the compressor side. The flywheel weighed about two tons on one of these. Wide open was near 350 rpm. They were two cycle and ran on natural gas. I could tell you some ammonia stories including large clouds from leaks and general irritation of sweaty body parts from small leaks. We had oilers that ran on crankshaft power and were basically little pumps in a container of oil. This was fortunately located between the compressor cylinders so you had to put on a gas mask to go in an fill them and make sure they were pumping. Most of the time there were tiny leaks and the sweaty parts would sometimes feel like they were on fire while you filled the lubricators with oil. It did not take me long to fill one.

Gday Winky, very interesting build and throughly enjoying the series, Cheers

Good video Mark, I am getting a real charge out of this, cheers!

Great video

That fumed oak looks sensational. I didn't realise how deep it penetrated.

Great. This is similar to the Van der Graaf machine. First time I see.

Gr8 sir

Tesla would be proud!

Hi Mark, great videos, are there plans available? if so how to get them Peter K

hi there what degrees are each segment ? there are 28 on each disc so are they about 12.86 degrees ? plus on the uprights on your drawings what length is the routed holes for the disc rods ? are they just over an inch as the bolt hole for the equaliser connector bolt is 1 inch from the top love the videos watched them numerous times all the best from uk

Awesome!!!

Like #10 Thanks for the video! What is your background? Need input! ("Short Circuit" reference.)

Hi Mark. Where did you buy those brass fittings? Anything brass at my local hardware store is super expensive. Thanks.

Winky, have you ever made walnut stain from tobacco, or from the green hulls of the walnut using alcohol or ammonia?

Have you thought of useing different designed disks ? Have you thought of making a multi disk player ? 5 wimshurst machines with 5 different disks ? Combine all the energies into one ? Humans are very limited in thought ..

Well done Winky. Out of interest why are you making more of these wonderful machines. Are you hoping to sell kits ? By the way you have TWO PORNO LINKS below. You really need to either block them or preferably NOT ALLOW Links to be attached to any of your viewers comments. Regards from Australia.