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RE: Optimal Topload? - screen torroids

Subject:  RE: Optimal Topload? - screen torroids
  Date:   Fri, 16 May 97 16:00:45 UT
  From:   "William Noble" <William_B_Noble-at-msn-dot-com>
    To:   "Tesla List" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


I haven't tried this - other things have gotten higher priority, but
here are 
a couple of ideas:
1. take metal window screen and mold it around either a wheel or a cake
pan - 
with copper screen (which you can buy) you could bend it better and make
two 
half torroids,then remove the "mold" and tack solder the edges
together.  I've 
made shapes from screen before and it worked ok, so I don't see why this 
wouldn't work.
2. take an inner tube and wrap it with bare copper wire - wrap both
around the 
inner tube and across it. solder at the connections.  Then cut around
the 
inside diameter and remove the inner tube.
3. use a bundt pan (one of those torroidial cakes) or two, or a bundt
pan for 
the bottom and a mixing bowl for the top.
4. go to a garden supply place and get a spherical topiary form (they
grow 
things over these wire covered balls of peat moss).  In fact, I wonder
how 
plants take to being on top of a running coil???

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Sent:   Friday, May 16, 1997 7:22 AM
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Subject:        Re: Optimal Topload?

Subject:  Re: Optimal Topload?
  Date:   Fri, 16 May 1997 01:04:14 -0400 (EDT)
  From:   richard hull <rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net>
    To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


sniperoo


>Are you aware of the fact that if you made a toroid out of metal
>screen door mesh (that stuff that keeps the flies out) that it would
>actually work quite well as a toroid? Yep, the individual e-field
>COMPONENTS merge wonderfully, and it quickly becomes a nice even
>e-field. Does THAT give you any lightweight ideas for huge toroids
>and cones??? Think in terms of having the parts to build a
>lightweight wooden inner framing upon which the mesh panels can be
>hung. VOILA! the 8 foot trailer, she fits!
>
>Hope some of the ideas help someone out there!
>Fr. Tom McGahee


Yep,  You can even use chiken wire (~1" holes" and it will work just
fabulously!
It looks super cheesy and makes you look like a piker, but will work
virtually as well as a polished, spun toroid.

R. Hull, TCBOR