Re: [TCML] Kinraide Coil Reproduction - Near Completion. Near exhausted.

[FIFTYGUY@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 8/21/08 7:16:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
electrotherapy@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

>If anyone has an old Bowling ball, made of Ebonite or Vulcanite, no  longer 
needed, if you send it my 
>way I will machine proper hard rubber coil forms!  It would be  a dream to 
actually to do this, in the 
>same way that getting silk covered wire to use was a dream to wind  with.  
But I don't know where to 
>get them in South Florida.  It'll be a real interesting task  to turn them 
on the lathe, but I am sure 
>willing to have a go!


    How old a bowling ball would this be? How do you ID  one as made of 
Ebonite or Vulcanite? 
    I purchase bowling balls at thrift stores for dirt  cheap and pick them 
up at the recycling yard fairly regularly (I shoot them  from a cannon, and 
they tend to be hard to find afterwards). I've also shot *at*  several bowling 
balls - which is almost as fun since you can put  "english" on them by winging 
them with a high-power rifle. You can spend all day  launching them out in a 
field, then make them roll around wherever you want  until they get too small 
and lumpy.. 
    My point is that I've got some familiarity with the  construction of 
bowling balls, and the ones I've come across are in two general  flavors: solid 
all the way through swirled/colored plastic, or cork and rubber  core with a 
tough outer skin. Is the Ebonite/Vulcanite different, like a solid  rubber?
    If I know what to look for, I'll keep an eye out  and send them to you.
    BTW, look at how the pro shops fixture balls to  drill finger holes. 
Might be useful when it comes time to machine yours  down.

 
-Phil LaBudde
Center for the Advanced Study of Ballistic  Improbabilities



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