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Re: Big Toroids, collective conscious brain storm



Original poster: Vardan <vardan01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

If it were not a toroid but two disks of sheet metal with a round edge it should so as well. Then just a "hoop" of rounded outside metal is all that is needed.

In other words, imagine a 6 x 24 toroid with an 18 inch hole drilled down the center, you are left with just the 3 inches of rounded outside edge which is all you need.

http://drsstc.com/~piranha/PIRANHA/HoopTorroid.gif

Then the only hard part is to fabricate the hoop. So you take a long strip of metal and pass it through a forming machine to round it over and curve it.

http://www.irvansmith.com/catalog2/english_wheels.shtml

Then you could probably just solder or pop rivet it together.

Just a thought...

Cheers,

	Terry