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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


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