Another use for your transformer is to clean glass. The plasma of a
high voltage conduction thru a gas such as air, is very active and will
eliminate traces of most anything from the glass. Useful if you are
cleaning glass before depositing aluminum on it for mirrors. You can
tell it is really clean by sliding the point of a nail across the glass
before and after.
Before the nail will slide easily. After cleaning the nail will be
really hard to slide.

Dan

Can you expand on that cleaning process?
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Rex Burkheimer
WM Automotive
Fort Worth TX

wrote:
Another use for your transformer is to clean glass. The plasma of a
high voltage conduction thru a gas such as air, is very active and will
eliminate traces of most anything from the glass. Useful if you are
cleaning glass before depositing aluminum on it for mirrors. You can
tell it is really clean by sliding the point of a nail across the glass
before and after.
Before the nail will slide easily. After cleaning the nail will be
really hard to slide.

Dan

This is something I read in " Experimental Physics" or at least a
title very close to that. The author is "Strong " and it available as
a reprint from Linsey. I have tried it.

You need something kind of like a carbon arc torch but insulated for
high voltage and I just used copper wire. I think carbon would be bad.
Tig tungstens would likely be best.
Anyway it arcs just like a jacobs ladder.
You just move it over the glass so the plasma is up against the surface
of the glass. Anything adhering by electric charge blows away. Oils
oxidize, you probably die from ozone ( but only if the ozone from a
jacobs ladder kills you ).

Dan