Re: foil-covered inner-tubes for large toroids?

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Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren1-at-iinet-dot-net.au> 

See my 9 x 33 inch truck tyre toroid for my 18 inch coil. Very simple, 
cheap and effective but make sure it doesn't have any holes first. I had to 
do a hasty patch job in the middle of putting the aluminium tape on.
http://tesladownunder.iinet-dot-net.au/tesla_coil_sparks.htm

Peter (Tesla Downunder)


>Original poster: DRIEBEN-at-midsouth.rr-dot-com
>Hi all,
... I was wondering what you guys thought of a
>large inflated tractor tire inner tube covered in alumi-
>num foil or tape. Of course it would be imperative that it
>didn't leak ....Has anybody had
>experience with this approach at a large toroid?
>Thanks,
>David Rieben