A little earlier in this thread Javi mentioned the high price of copper and wondered if aluminium could be substituted for the pipes of a CB.
I searched EW but the only specific reference I came across was this 8-pipe CB made by a friend of Igor:
And a comment from Kelly that 8 pipes didn’t seem to work as well as 6 pipes (but no reference to the metal used) so I figured that the only way to resolve the issue was to make one myself.
In my usual way; I cast Cesco coils and ST Quartz crystals in cylindrical blocks to slide into the empty pipes when the base was ready and I cast another similar block in the middle of the base between the pipes and this was the result:
I sent a photo to Kelly who said it did not feel good and quite rightly pointed out that I should have made the simplest Croft CB (no coils or centre-piece) if I wanted to experiment with a different pipe material.
He suggested that I cut off the aluminium pipes and replace them with copper ones to see how that felt so I took the pipes off a CB that he’d previously said “felt good” and put them on the aluminium CB base:
While I had the two CBs dismantled; I tried putting the aluminium pipes on the “good” CB and sent both pictures to Kelly for comparison.
He replied thus:
“The one with the copper pipes above feels good: the one with the aluminum pipes above does not. Apparently what is above counts more than what is in the base, for the pipes at least.”
Actually while I was waiting for his reply I removed the Cesco blocks from the pipes and replaced them with ST quartz crystals; drilled out the coil from the centre of the base and filled the hole with TBs.
The result was a simple, unadulterated Croft CB with aluminium pipes:
To which Kelly commented: “Still feels not so good.”
So in answer to Javi’s question; it would seem that aluminium is not a good substitute for copper which is a pity as it’s much cheaper than copper (I could make four aluminium CBs for the price of one copper CB).
My own feeling was that the simple alu’ CB felt much better than its earlier incarnation with the coils etc. but I couldn’t see how the Cesco coils in the pipes could have influenced the device and my suspicion fell on the central coil.
Accordingly I took the STs out again and replaced the Cesco coil/crystal blocks and set it out in the yard with the other CBs to see how things went.
Now I know that I’m not Laozu Kelly and my opinions may be heavily influenced by the fact that I want this aluminium CB thing to work but I have observed no negative influences either at ground level or in the sky from this CB and have regarded it with a critical eye for a couple of weeks now.
The focus area is the sky of course and it seems to be doing its job well up there and with no obviously detrimental effects down here.
Many people have felt a subtle difference in the energy around copper as opposed to aluminium but I would certainly recommend this low-budget version to anyone facing a cash crisis when planning a regular copper CB.
I hope that anyone else who has made an aluminium CB will post their observations in this thread in order that a better understanding may be reached.
Edostar.
Dan, I think it’s worth mentioning that while feedback from skilled, reputable sensitives is always welcome we might consider that it’s a little bit like feedback from engineers.
The grandest results I ever witnessed from an orgonite cloudbuster, for instance, were when Gert Botha stopped all the sandstorms, dead, in his corner of the Namib Desert with his funny-looking, half-scale CB that was cobbled together in a hurry from whatever material he could find. He had a mix of aluminum and copper pipes of wildly various lenghts and thicknesses.
I’m pretty sure Kelly would have felt horrified by the energy from that device. I know that a lot of devices that make him feel uncomfortable are actually useful in the field and I think it would be unfair to him if we were to depend on him for the last word on things like this. He seems like a highly skilled energy engineer to me, though.
I’ve gotten sincere criticism from electronics engineers over the years who bought my zappers. Some of them got kind of mad at me for not having a circuit that produces a perfect square wave. Even after I told them that this just isn’t important and that a circuit that produces a perfect wave form would be costly to create most of them didn’t understand my point because they felt passionate about engineering and not very interested in practical market or application considerations.
Kelly’s the one who figured out, a year ago, why the metal you had been using wasn’t suitable and when he showed your sample to Carol, Jeff, Ryan and Linda, all of whom are very skilled sensitives, they concurred and your problem got solved–the coil direction of those scrubby pads was simply counterclockwise in that case. The stuff we all get from machine shops has a clockwise turn to the shavings.
We always seek consensus among the sensitives when issues like that come up. A couple of days later we finally determined that wax was not a substitute for resin in orgonite, by the way, and Carol got quite a DOR sting for her efforts when she removed the test piece (it had accumulated DOR rather than transmute it to OR) from the ‘live’ death tower site where we had left it for an hour or two 
We gifted that new tower shortly after that, which was probably a bad idea since now we’ll have to travel a long way to find a ‘live’ death tower to try new stuff on—the rest are gifted. For a couple of months, in the winter of 03, you could test your TBs’ effect on a death tower with a zapchecker, by the way. Taht was pretty fine and educational—confirmed Carol’s observation that it generally takes a simple TB a half hour to completely disable a death tower. By early spring, the NSA or some other sewer rat agency had figured out how to queer the dial on zapcheckers with groundwaves or something when we got near death towers. It even got harder to use them to find implants within a year after that.
Copper is kind of expensive these days. For years we’ve been advising people to use aluminum or steel when they can’t afford or find copper and these CBs apparently get the same results as the ones that are made from copper.
The arena where I think energy sensitives ought to be consulted is personal devices. Otherwise the field pieces are all going to work consistently well if they’re made within very, very wide parameters, assuming there’s enough metal and resin in them.
You did some mighty impressive work on those cloudbusters, though, and I’m sure the HAARPies in your region resignedly agree by now!
Carol noticed, early, that it’s better to leave teh crystals in the pipes exposed rather than encase them in resin. I had wanted to encase the crystals in resin in the pipes because it just seemed reasonable to do that. Only a few kinds of crystals won’t need replacing in a CB, by the way: Lemurian seed crystals, diamante crystals(?) and maybe some others. Encasing a crystal in orgonite ensures that it won’t ‘run out of energy’ but it also apparently makes it unsuitable for the cloudbuster pipe.
~Don
