Re: Wire Obstacles
From: jatkins6@i... (John Atkinson)
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 13:07:16 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Wire Obstacles
You wrote:
> Or...you create a wire about as thick as say, modern fishing
line, with a >monomolecular core surrounded by plastic or something.
You string the >resulting wire up, in whatever positions you like, and
glue it in place >with blobs of epoxy. You then spray the area with a
chemical that eats >away the outer material, leaving the core of
molywire. The eopxy blobs >will be uneffected by this chemical, and
will serve to anchor the whole >thing in place, since the sections of
wire within them will be untouched by >said chemical, and will remain
as thick as fishing line. Voila. Seems >workable to me. Still a
nasty way to die, though....
The epoxy is bonded to the plastic which just fell apart--epoxy can't
'stick' to a monowire. And any pressure is as likely to sever whatever
you're attaching it to as it is to slice the guy who walks into it.
John M. Atkinson