Thinking about transparency of fiberglass got me thinking. I did a
random experiment a couple years ago where I put some carbon fiber yarn
in an electroplating bath and found that it had uniformly coated the
fibers with either Ni or Cu because the carbon fibers are electrically
conductive. So..........make a hull out of carbon roving. This would
have to be special roving as most of the stuff that is sold has a
nonconductive coating for ease of weaving. Immerse the "hull" made
this way into a copper electroplating bath and turn on the current.
You would get a hull made primarily of carbon fiber (for low weight)
but with the electrical properties of Copper for lightning and it would
be naturally anti-fouling.

Cheaper to build a coopernickle hull.

It would be nice if someone built a electroplating pond I could copper
coat my steel bottom, or better yet Gold plate it, O hear gold is an
excellent antifoulant.

Joe

Well Mel Fisher found this on the bottom of the ocean after it sat for
350 + years and it looked and worked perfectly.

http://rareatochacoins.com/bosunswhistle2.jpg

If dumb were bricks your brain would be the great china wall Commode
Rob.

Joe
Your Owner

Hmmm, gold coating is fairly cheap at least for very thin layers, just
enough to make it look goldish.

"Joe" wrote in message
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Well Mel Fisher found this on the bottom of the ocean after it sat for
350 + years and it looked and worked perfectly.

http://rareatochacoins.com/bosunswhistle2.jpg

If dumb were bricks your brain would be the great china wall Commode
Rob.
If brains were fuel, he wouldn't have enough to power a ****ant's go-cart
halfway around a cheerio.

OK, Ive heard that carbon fiber spars explode when hit by lightning cuz
the carbon fibers really conduct well but the resin does not, so we
make spars this way.

The problems:

1. Creating the same potential drop in the plating solution - the copper
doing the throwing would have to be about the same shape as the hull.

2. The currents would be large.

3. The plating would not be smooth.

4. Does copper need a tie coat such as nickel for adhesion?


Why not just plate the bow and stern sections with dissimiliar metals and
short them inside the hull to propel the craft forward?

Amen!


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Thinking about transparency of fiberglass got me thinking. I did a
random experiment a couple years ago where I put some carbon fiber yarn
in an electroplating bath and found that it had uniformly coated the
fibers with either Ni or Cu because the carbon fibers are electrically
conductive. So..........make a hull out of carbon roving. This would
have to be special roving as most of the stuff that is sold has a
nonconductive coating for ease of weaving. Immerse the "hull" made
this way into a copper electroplating bath and turn on the current.
You would get a hull made primarily of carbon fiber (for low weight)
but with the electrical properties of Copper for lightning and it would
be naturally anti-fouling.

http://silver-image.com/assign/morga...12time_uwt.jpg

http://rareatochacoins.com/divergoldbars5.jpg

Guess you never found a spanish coin in the surf have you?

The pictures above show actual finds when they happened, notice the
shiny gold? After 300 + yrs on bottom still bright.

The whistle was as shown when found, go to fishers site and see for
yourself. See some long gold chains perfect after all that time on the
bottom of the sea, no need to antifoul them, just put them on and bling
bling...

Joe
Your Owner

If his brain was electric he could not power the Denzo mobile around a
dime

http://www.densocorp-na.com/newmc/images/car.jpg

The DENSO Micro-Car is a miniature version of Toyota's first passenger
car, the 1936 Model AA sedan. Its size is astounding: 1/1000th the size
of the actual car or about the size of a grain of rice. Dimensions a
4.785 mm long, 1.73 mm wide and 1.736 mm tall.

The Micro-Car has a total of 24 parts which come in 13 different types
including body, tires, spare tire, wheels, axle, bearings, headlights,
rearlights, front bumper, rear bumper, step, number plate and emblem.


To give you an idea of how tiny the car is, you can compare it to the
width of a human hair, which is about 80 micron measurements (one
micron equals 0.001 mm). Some Micro-Car statistics a

Stainless steel bumper - 50 microns thin and 220 microns wide.
Wheels - 500 microns in diameter.
Number plate - 200 microns high and 400 microns wide.
A 0.67 mm-sized magnetic-type working motor consisting of five
different parts including a magnet and core powers the tiny car. When
supplied with 3V 20 mA of alternating current through an 18-micron-thin
copper wire, the engine can run at 600 rpm.

Joe

Bob:

You know the saying "For every complicated idea these's a simple
solution.......and its wrong"? I am an expert at wrong solutions.