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Re: torque conv./ inner tubes
> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 23:25:10 -0700
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> Subject: Re: torque conv./ inner tubes
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> Subscriber: SSNSanders-at-aol-dot-com Tue Jan 7 22:30:48 1997
> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 18:33:48 -0500
> From: SSNSanders-at-aol-dot-com
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: torque conv./ inner tubes
>
> In a message dated 97-01-07 03:33:06 EST, you write:
>
> <<
> I used this idea last year in constructing the small toroid that I
> have. I used a 15"(?, not sure) wheelbarrow tire and stuffed it with
> newspaper for rigidity. I then covered it in Al tape, then smoothed. It
> works fairly well, but I have since moved on to a Duct toroid, as this one
> wasn't large enough for my six inch coil. I plan to wind a 4" sometime
> soon, and then the wheelbarrow tire will again see service.
>
> Stan Harle
> Alamogordo, NM
> >>
> I want to rub down a tire of this size with graphite and somehow keep it
> under a solution of CuSO4 and plate it with copper to a thick coating. I just
> dont know how to keep it covered with solution with air in it and it has to
> have the air to maintain shape. Any ideas? Stephen
>
Stephen,
I don't recall where it is written that tire tubes _must_ be filled
with air. It might make it much more difficult for the part about
applying the graphite, but have you considered filling the tube with
plain old water, or better yet, salt water? Once in the copper plating sulution
you would have much closer to neutral buoyancy. Maybe you could place the
tube in the empty plating tank, fill the tube with water, rub graphite on the
top half of the tube, fill the tank with plating solution and plate
to desired thickness, then drain the tank and tube, flip over, refill
the tube, graphite rubdown, refill plating tank just to the parting
line and go again? Interesting /problem project!
rwstephens