Re: pinhole extra-long slinky for hanging wave demo?

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From: Paul Doherty (pauld@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 10:25:03 PDT 

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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:25:03 -0700
From: Paul Doherty <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Re: pinhole extra-long slinky for hanging wave demo?

Hi Mike

We use plastic slinkies and glue them together with GOOP 6000, we overlap
the "slinks" by about 3 inches. Just two slinkies glued together make a
fine demo. Three is the max you'll ever need.

Paul D

>Hey Paul D. (or others),
>
>The Exploratorium got ahold of extra-long plastic slinkies for a very slick
>hanging wave demo. Paul mentioned that the toy company provided them
>custom to
>the Exploratorium but gluing a bunch together can work, if you have the right
>glue. Can anyone help me either find the custom, super long slinkies or what
>kind of glue works best? Thanks!
>
>-Mike Geluardi
>Piedmont High
>
>
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