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Re: torque conv./ inner tubes
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> Subscriber: kilroy1-at-juno-dot-com Sun Jan 5 21:43:19 1997
> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 18:28:57 PST
> From: "Kerry S. Ludwig" <kilroy1-at-juno-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: torque conv./ inner tubes
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> By using different sizes of tubes and different pressures, almost any
> size of terminal would be possible. Anything from a go-cart inner-tube
> to one off of a farm tractor. (That's one I would like to see run!)
>
> I can't seem to look at any object without imagining a use for it in a
> Tesla Coil. It drives my wife crazy!!!!! Maybe we should start a
> seperate listserv as a support group for wives of coilers.
> (Our possibley husbands, though I've never ran into a female coiler!)
>
> Just my thoughts............
>
> Kerry "Kilroy" Ludwig
> Kilroy1-at-juno-dot-com
Kerry,
I have run earth mover tractor type inner tubs, car and truck tire inner
tubes, etc, in the early 1990s.
They work great when covered with aluminum foil.
I had a problem though. With the onset of winter the air in
the tube contracted in my un-heated lab. The foil then shriveled up on
the reduced size toroid and permenant wrinkles appeared. Refilling a bit
actually stressed the Aluminum and it tore in a few places. Finally, I
don't know what caused this, but I came out one day and the giant 65"
diameter inner tube was wilted down over the Nemesis coil like a big
silver condom! I thought this might have been the rubber succumbing to
the UV/ozone exposure and deterioration along chemical lines took its
toll, or just a chance punture. I haven't used inner tubes since that
time.
Richard Hull, TCBOR