Re: [TCML] Kinraide Coil Reproduction - Near Completion. Near exhausted.

[CONOR WHYTE <cjwhyte@xxxxxxx>]

As far as I know Ebonite is the same thing as Phenolic (Bakelite).
I don't know this for sure. Right?





In a message dated 8/21/08 7:16:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight 
> Time,  
> electrotherapy@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> 
> >If anyone has an old Bowling ball, made of Ebonite or 
> Vulcanite, no  longer 
> needed, if you send it my 
> >way I will machine proper hard rubber coil forms!  It 
> would be  a dream to 
> actually to do this, in the 
> >same way that getting silk covered wire to use was a dream to 
> wind  with.  
> But I don't know where to 
> >get them in South Florida.  It'll be a real interesting 
> task  to turn them 
> on the lathe, but I am sure 
> >willing to have a go!
> 
> 
>     How old a bowling ball would this be? How do 
> you ID  one as made of 
> Ebonite or Vulcanite? 
>     I purchase bowling balls at thrift stores for 
> dirt  cheap and pick them 
> up at the recycling yard fairly regularly (I shoot them  
> from a cannon, and 
> they tend to be hard to find afterwards). I've also shot 
> *at*  several bowling 
> balls - which is almost as fun since you can put  "english" 
> on them by winging 
> them with a high-power rifle. You can spend all day  
> launching them out in a 
> field, then make them roll around wherever you want  until 
> they get too small 
> and lumpy.. 
>     My point is that I've got some familiarity 
> with the  construction of 
> bowling balls, and the ones I've come across are in two 
> general  flavors: solid 
> all the way through swirled/colored plastic, or cork and 
> rubber  core with a 
> tough outer skin. Is the Ebonite/Vulcanite different, like a 
> solid  rubber?
>     If I know what to look for, I'll keep an eye 
> out  and send them to you.
>     BTW, look at how the pro shops fixture balls 
> to  drill finger holes. 
> Might be useful when it comes time to machine yours  down.
> 
>  
> -Phil LaBudde
> Center for the Advanced Study of Ballistic  Improbabilities
> 
> 
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