Re: torque converters (clarification)

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• Subject: Re: torque converters (clarification)
• From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com>
• Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 00:27:36 -0800
• Subscriber: bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com Sat Jan 4 21:23:37 1997

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Subscriber: chip-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com Fri Jan  3 22:15:49 1997
> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 21:50:41 -0700 (MST)
> From: Chip Atkinson <chip-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: torque converters (clarification)
> 
> I was thinking of getting a hack saw and cuttig around the periphery so it
> could be gutted and therefore lightened.
> 
> Chip
> 
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>  Chip Atkinson
>  http://bhs.broo.k12.wv.us/homepage/chip/info.htm
>  --- Tighten it 'till it strips and back off half a turn ---
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Chip and all,

Had an interesting conversation with Tom Vales (TCBA member) last
evening. One thing he's tried is a pair of large aluminum frying pans,
handles removed, sandblasted to remove all the teflon (important!!), and
heliarced or aluminum soldered together. Talk about an indestructable
toroid!!

-- Bert --

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