Re: build perfect cheap toroid!!!

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: build perfect cheap toroid!!!
From: "Ruud de Graaf" <rdegraaf-at-daxis.nl> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:05:13 -0700
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>Original Poster: "Arwin C. Wijnschenk" <solva-at-xs4all.nl>
>
>Dear all,
>
>Ever considered the following for building your own beautiful and
>working toroid? i bought a secondhand truck inner tyre. Inflated it
>manually and covered the tyre with ligaments of aluminumfoil. The
>ligaments were laid double as armwrists around the ring, so I made about
>25 double rings next to each other. ´Glue´ the ends of the ligaments
>with vaseline or fat, no glue or tape! Wrap all of the the tyre in
>plastic domestic foil (to keep food fresh) and inflate the tyre a bit
>more. All rinkles in the (aluminum)foil will disappear and the ligaments
>will move towards eachother or tear here and there but because of the
>double layer and the glueing with vaseline you wont see.
>
>Here´s your 10 U$ perfect toroid!
>
>
Congratulations Arwin!!!

Now, that's what I call creative thinking!
How big is it? Can you show on the net? Did you had any problems you didn't
expected?

Ruud de Graaf
Greetings from a fellow Dutchman