Re: Bundt Pans and Toroid Construction

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

I'd think that they are stamped out of sheet aluminum, probably multiples at
a time.  When you make a million of something, you can afford the fairly
substantial cost of the dies to do the stamping.

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Subject: Bundt Pans and Toroid Construction


 > Original poster: "Bill Vanyo by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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 >
 > Just wondering if there isn't some cheaper way to construct rigid
 > toroids than the spun aluminum construction.  Bundt pans (those baking
 > pans that make a cake with a whole in the middle) are more or less half
 > a toroid, although they usually have decorative embellishments that are
 > not desirable for  Tesla coil toroids, and are not big enough or the
 > right dimesions for most.  But they're cheap, which makes me think that
 > there's a cheaper way to produce half a toroid than spinning.
 >
 > Any ideas how they're constructed, and whether big toroids could be made
 > this way?
 >
 > - Bill V.
 >
 >