Re: torque conv./ inner tubes

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: torque conv./ inner tubes
From: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:10:18 -0500
Subscriber: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com Tue Jan 7 22:30:08 1997

In a message dated 97-01-07 03:33:06 EST, you write:

<< Subscriber: lazer-at-earth.wazoo-dot-com Mon Jan  6 22:10:12 1997
> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 09:54:42 -0700 (MST)
 >From: Stanley Harle <lazer-at-earth.wazoo-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: torque conv./ inner tubes
 
 
 
>On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Tesla List wrote:
 
 >> 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 used this idea last year in constructing the small toroid that I
> have.  I used a 15"(?, not sure) wheelbarrow tire and stuffed it with
>newspaper for rigidity.  I then covered it in Al tape, then smoothed.  It
>works fairly well, but I have since moved on to a Duct toroid, as this one
>.wasn't large enough for my six inch coil.  I plan to wind a 4" sometime
> soon, and then the wheelbarrow tire will again see service.
 
> Stan Harle
> Alamogordo, NM
  >>

All, 

I wonder if anyone has tried injecting that foam insulating material that
comes out of a spray can and expands, into an inner tube to make it rigid?
 Will the material dry without an air environment?

John Freau