Re: Jared's fiberglass toroid

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Original poster: "Scott Hanson" <huil888@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Jared -

The spheres sound interesting, but my only interest lies in toroids.

What were the dimensions of the fiberglass toroid you built?

Can you provide details of the construction? Fiberglass cloth directly over
a convoluted aluminum flex duct? How many fiberglass layers were required to
a achieve a decent surface finish? Did you use woven cloth alone, or in
conjunction with fiberglass mat? How did you prevent the bottom of the
toroid from bonding itself to your workbench as the resin cured?

Can you email a few photos?

Regards,
Scott Hanson
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Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: Toroid construction


> Original poster: Jared E Dwarshuis <jdwarshui@xxxxxxxxx>
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>
>  >From Jared:
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> I was asked if I had actually built a fiberglass toroid.
>
> Yes I have.
>
> Now we use only spheres for top ends. If we are just doing an
> experimental coil we burnish aluminum foil directly to styrofoam
> spheres, and this works just fine. But keeper coils get hard shells.
> We do our lay up over inflated rubber balls for these.
>
> If we go to Dr Resonances Tesla Bash this year we will bring examples
> of sphere capacitors with us. You can take photos of them there if you
> like. Otherwise photos will appear in our next Tesla webring site.
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