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Re: torque conv./ inner tubes
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To: tesla@pupman.com
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Subject: Re: torque conv./ inner tubes
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From: kilroy@bscn.com
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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:34:14 -0600
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Subscriber: kilroy@bscn.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.
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>>Kerry "Kilroy" Ludwig >Kilroy@bscn.com
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> 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
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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@bscn.com