None of this worked.
What all these ideas had in common
was that they used an outer cover with some sort of rigid guide. None of them worked, I was stumped.
Creativity is not science, its
much more like magic then it is like science. And as such creativity is very hard to measure. With that said, I “know”
that Susi is more creative them I am. She has more creativity in her little finger then I do in my whole arm. Of course she
doesn't think so but when I am stumped I ask her. I showed her a picture of B9 legs and asked if
she had any ideas on how to make them. Instantly she said something like: "What about like a bean bag chair?"
Wow, I had never thought of that.
What a great idea!
Elvis mode ON: "Ohh baby! Thank
you, thank you very much…" Elvis mode OFF.
After thinking about this for
a while I was not so sure it was a good idea. But it was a different direction. So I thought some more. The difference was
that with Susi's idea the "Stuff" guiding the shape of the legs was not rigid, it was flexible. Something important there,
I just did not know what.
Then, while on a visit to Home
Depot to ogle the Armaflex insulation, I turned around and right across the aisle from the Armaflex was a bunch of clear vinyl
tubing. Interesting, it was curled up. And it was curled up in a radius about the same size as it needed to be on the B9 legs…
And it was the exact size to fit inside the Armaflex. And it was flexible! It could support and guide the Armaflex just like
the beans inside a bean bag chair. Ok, but not all of the B9 leg parts had to be curved, some of it (the sides) would be straight.
Well just down the same aisle was PVC water pipe. Clear vinyl tubing for the curves, PVC for the straight, all inside
& guiding the Armaflex insulation... How to connect them? In the next aisle were nylon barbed fittings that would do the
job.
That was it, the idea was born.
And I would have never gone in that direction without Susi's idea. Thanks Susi!
