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I wonder - take two large sheet metal washers. Weld together inside and out . Add a zerk fitting. Use a grease gun to pressurize. It will certainly form something somewhat torroidial, I would think. -----Original Message----- From: Tesla [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Finn Hammer Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 10:09 AM To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [TCML] Hydroforming Toroids Dave, all: Jamie is doing a remarkably fine job for an amateur, with the surf board, and this is because the finished object has a shallow angle at the edge. Raising a sheet metal object up to 30 degrees is not so difficult, but acheiving a 90 degrees edge angle will prove impossible, without blowing the part into a negative mold. This is at least what this toolmaker thinks, and why he still has his toroids made at the local metal spinning shop. Cheers, Finn Hammer ----- Original meddelelse ----- > Fra: Dave Leddon <dave@xxxxxxxxxx> > Til: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> > Dato: Man, 14. sep 2015 05:10 > Emne: [TCML] Hydroforming Toroids > > The other day I was watching an episode of Mythbusters in which Jamie > used hydroforming to fabricate a pontoon out of stainless steel. > (Sorry I could only find this in Spanish) > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxcOzPzqOi8 > Is there any reason that we couldn't use the same technique to create > toroids? It would seem that all one would need is three thick pieces > of steel plate, a large outer ring, a small inner disk and a large > bottom disk. A pressure washer would provide the necessary high > pressure water. What do you think? > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > Tesla mailing list > Tesla@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla Mvh. Finn Hammer _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla