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

["Brian Foley" <ka1bbg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, 2 different materials all together.....ebonite is hard rubber and
bakelite is thermosetting phelolic like material. cul brian f.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "CONOR WHYTE" <cjwhyte@xxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Kinraide Coil Reproduction - Near Completion.
Nearexhausted.


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