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Mini Van De Graaf... M & M style!

Step 6Fire it up

Fire it up
After a few failed attempts at spinning the apparatus with small motors, I gave up and pulled out my trusty new Makita (the same one, incidentally, that I won in the 2007 pumpkin-carving contest!), and tightened it to the wire roller.

With the VDG, you've got to keep the humidity low. Hose it with a blow dryer and you're better off.

So far I can get 1/4" sparks to jump to my finger. I can get rice crispies to crawl up a plastic cup. I can get packing peanuts to stick to the M&M. Definitely low power VDG tricks, lots of fun demos out there to try!
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