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Conducting/insulated balls

Q. What's the best way to accomplish the following?

• 1). 4 cu ft of balls
• 2). with a conducting surface
• 3). covered with an insulating surface

fred beihold
- boston, Massachusetts
1999

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1999

Q. Thanks for responding to my original letter of July 7th. Did not see your response until just now. Am getting the hang of your web site. I need 4 cubic feet of balls. But these balls are unique.

1). They float.

2). They are 1/4" diameter o.d.

3). If you drill into one of them, towards the center, 1/32" of electrical insulation will be encountered followed by at least 0.001" of a conducter such as gold, silver, copper, or nickel either as paint or metal. Inside the conducting metal layer the volume can be air, or another layer of plasic 1/32" thick.

4). The lighter the better.

5). The cheaper the better.

6). The faster we can get them, the better.

7). If someone took a burlap bag full of these balls, and swung it hard up against a tree, the should not break, not should any of the surfaces crack.

8). The more resistant the outer layer is to stain, and chemicals the better.

9). These will be used outdoors in swamps, deserts, farmland, cities, beaches, mountaintops, etc. Anywhere on the face of the earth.

Thanks,

fred beihold
- boston, Massachusetts

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