Re: Kevlar

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>

I'm not entirely sure they're actually Kevlar, but they ARE incredibly 
tough. They're a MAJOR pain to cut, very flexible, and easy to get.

I *strongly* urge you to get a used one, do NOT try to discharge an 
automotive airbag. They go off like a cannon, make a serious mess, and 
remain searing hot for quite a while after discharge. They also cost a 
couple hundred to replace :) We got ours when we removed the dual airbags 
from Geek-3. We touched off the first one in a parking lot and it launched 
well over 40' in the air and set off car-alarms a considerable distance 
away. The second one we detonated in a farm field.

Both bags have held signifigant failures, explosions, and other creative 
bits of research without a puncture or failure, including many exploded 
metal-can caps and samples that have experianced the full force of our 
Project Thumper's discharges (80 caps, 2000uF-at-=/<450VDC).

If you talk to any body shop, they're likely to give you an old airbag 
pulled from a junk or wrinkled car free if you ask sweetly.




Christopher "Duck" Boden Geek#1
President / C.E.O. / Alpha Geek
The Geek Group
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the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.


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ability to teach.
     - Both from Margaret Mead, 1901 - 1978





>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Kevlar
>Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 08:34:45 -0700
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>Original poster: "J. B. Weazle McCreath by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca>
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>
>Hello "Duck" and Coilers,
>
>What a great suggestion about getting kevlar from used airbags!  A visit to
>your neighbourhood autobody repair shops should yield quite a good supply!!
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>73, Weazle, VE3EAR/VE3WZL
>
>"Don't take life so seriously, nobody has survived it yet!"
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