Re: torque conv./ inner tubes

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: torque conv./ inner tubes
From: kilroy-at-bscn-dot-com
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:34:14 -0600
Subscriber: kilroy-at-bscn-dot-com Sun Jan 12 22:11:26 1997


>>There are industrial foams that will expand and harden in a closed space.  I
>>used to work at a hot-tub manufacturing company.  We used isocynate foam to
>>coat the underneath of the tubs to insulate them.  It was a two-part mixture
>>that was blended as it was sprayed.  It expanded and hardened in seconds.
>>Too fast for this purpose, but there might be other two-part foams available
>>that have a slower reaction rate. Might try some industrial chemical
>>suppliers.  Watch what you're getting though.  The foam we used was highly
>>poisonous and we had to wear a breathing apparatus just to be in the same
>>room.  
>>
>>Kerry "Kilroy" Ludwig  >Kilroy-at-bscn-dot-com
>
>   But all this talk of foam expanding the inner tube is still not
>   going to solve the problem of how to plate the tube underneath the
>   CuSO4 solution, since the force of buoyancy is going to be
>

This was not intended to solve your buoyancy problem.  Just the problem of
producing a structurally rigid tube with which to work.  The subject had
kind of split off into two directions under the same title.  

Kerry "Kilroy" Ludwig
Kilroy-at-bscn-dot-com