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Spehro Pefhany
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 Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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On 29 Jul 2008 14:15:44 GMT, Jim Yanik <jyanik@abuse.gov> wrote:
[quote]"Tim Williams" <tmoranwms@charter.net> wrote in
news:xkEjk.883$3l5.714@newsfe06.iad:
"AndyS" <andysharpe@juno.com> wrote in message
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When he turned it on for the first time, I blew cigarette smoke thru
the plastic tube...
Such a commotion !!!!
The other way to do that is to stick a resistor in the power cord
receptacle (IEC or cheater cord, etc.).
Tim
that>s like twisting a piece of bubble wrap when a tech turns on a repair.
[/quote]
A high school friend stuck a straight pin through a line cord (and
nipped it off), and then watched when his sister plugged it in.
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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krw
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:42 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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In article <9ugs841e0afa1138mqpdmodd2lbiqkvg41@4ax.com>, To-Email-
Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com says...
[quote]
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:36:29 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:01:10 -0700 (PDT), "Ken S. Tucker"
dynamics@vianet.on.ca> wrote:
In Public School I decided to try to build a carbon
carbon arc lamp using 2 pencils, and it worked.
1st I screwed in to the pencils the leads, and
that worked but the wood started to smoulder.
Later I removed the graphite and wire wrapped
around the naked leads, that worked too.
My Old Boy got a little testy when I blew a few
fuses per day (in the 60>s they were 25 cents a
piece), so he advised a series resistance, like
a heater or light bulb. BINGO!
Fortunately no permanent retinal damage.
Ken
Lots of playing with high voltages... TV power transformers, neon sign
transformers, big oil caps, flashtubes.
A buddy and I were prowling an empty house and found a shopping bag
full of shotgun shells. We spent the summer peeling them open, and
using the powder for insane things.
I once made a Kerr cell using nitrobenzene, and got the stuff all over
me. I later read a Nero Wolfe mystery where a small dish of the stuff
was placed to spill on someone and killed them.
Huge lead exposure, of course.
John
I made bombs with my chemistry set, "bang" and smoke...
[/quote]
I made them out of rocket engine innards and thin wall conduit with
mail order underwater demolition fuse. Nitrogen tri-iodide was a
favorite too. I>d have DHS all over my ass today.
[quote]Smoked out (emptied) a restaurant across the alley from my junior high
school ;-)
...Jim Thompson
[/quote]
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Jim Thompson
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:50 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:42:13 -0400, krw <krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzz> wrote:
[quote]In article <9ugs841e0afa1138mqpdmodd2lbiqkvg41@4ax.com>, To-Email-
Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com says...
[snip]
I made bombs with my chemistry set, "bang" and smoke...
I made them out of rocket engine innards and thin wall conduit with
mail order underwater demolition fuse. Nitrogen tri-iodide was a
favorite too. I>d have DHS all over my ass today.
Smoked out (emptied) a restaurant across the alley from my junior high
school ;-)
...Jim Thompson
[/quote]
Reminds me, the smoke "bomb" was actually a Jetex (engine) tablet ;-)
Around 1953-54.
...Jim Thompson
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Martin Griffith
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:06 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:42:13 -0400, in sci.electronics.design krw
<krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzz> wrote:
[quote]In article <9ugs841e0afa1138mqpdmodd2lbiqkvg41@4ax.com>, To-Email-
Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com says...
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:36:29 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:01:10 -0700 (PDT), "Ken S. Tucker"
dynamics@vianet.on.ca> wrote:
In Public School I decided to try to build a carbon
carbon arc lamp using 2 pencils, and it worked.
1st I screwed in to the pencils the leads, and
that worked but the wood started to smoulder.
Later I removed the graphite and wire wrapped
around the naked leads, that worked too.
My Old Boy got a little testy when I blew a few
fuses per day (in the 60>s they were 25 cents a
piece), so he advised a series resistance, like
a heater or light bulb. BINGO!
Fortunately no permanent retinal damage.
Ken
Lots of playing with high voltages... TV power transformers, neon sign
transformers, big oil caps, flashtubes.
A buddy and I were prowling an empty house and found a shopping bag
full of shotgun shells. We spent the summer peeling them open, and
using the powder for insane things.
I once made a Kerr cell using nitrobenzene, and got the stuff all over
me. I later read a Nero Wolfe mystery where a small dish of the stuff
was placed to spill on someone and killed them.
Huge lead exposure, of course.
John
I made bombs with my chemistry set, "bang" and smoke...
I made them out of rocket engine innards and thin wall conduit with
mail order underwater demolition fuse. Nitrogen tri-iodide was a
favorite too. I>d have DHS all over my ass today.
Oh. The joys of "chemistry sets" from the 60>s, mixing stuff on the[/quote]
kitchen table, things going wrong, things going right, didn>t have a
clue what i was doing.........ahh, bliss
DHS..... nasty idea, reminds of McCarthy, somehow. You really should
do something about them
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Archimedes' Lever
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:19 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:06:22 +0200, Martin Griffith
<mart_in_medina@yah00.es> wrote:
[quote]DHS..... nasty idea, reminds of McCarthy, somehow. You really should
do something about them
Do you actually think that McCarthyism ever died out to begin with?[/quote]
It should... so should lobbyism.
The screwin' we>re gettin' ain>t worth the screwin' we>re gettin'. |
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krw
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:29 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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In article <ef4v8452b2do2m7fsk4c4kdgr2a1lqg5h0@4ax.com>,
mart_in_medina@yah00.es says...
[quote]On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:42:13 -0400, in sci.electronics.design krw
krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzz> wrote:
In article <9ugs841e0afa1138mqpdmodd2lbiqkvg41@4ax.com>, To-Email-
Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com says...
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:36:29 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:01:10 -0700 (PDT), "Ken S. Tucker"
dynamics@vianet.on.ca> wrote:
In Public School I decided to try to build a carbon
carbon arc lamp using 2 pencils, and it worked.
1st I screwed in to the pencils the leads, and
that worked but the wood started to smoulder.
Later I removed the graphite and wire wrapped
around the naked leads, that worked too.
My Old Boy got a little testy when I blew a few
fuses per day (in the 60>s they were 25 cents a
piece), so he advised a series resistance, like
a heater or light bulb. BINGO!
Fortunately no permanent retinal damage.
Ken
Lots of playing with high voltages... TV power transformers, neon sign
transformers, big oil caps, flashtubes.
A buddy and I were prowling an empty house and found a shopping bag
full of shotgun shells. We spent the summer peeling them open, and
using the powder for insane things.
I once made a Kerr cell using nitrobenzene, and got the stuff all over
me. I later read a Nero Wolfe mystery where a small dish of the stuff
was placed to spill on someone and killed them.
Huge lead exposure, of course.
John
I made bombs with my chemistry set, "bang" and smoke...
I made them out of rocket engine innards and thin wall conduit with
mail order underwater demolition fuse. Nitrogen tri-iodide was a
favorite too. I>d have DHS all over my ass today.
Oh. The joys of "chemistry sets" from the 60>s, mixing stuff on the
kitchen table, things going wrong, things going right, didn>t have a
clue what i was doing.........ahh, bliss
DHS..... nasty idea, reminds of McCarthy, somehow. You really should
do something about them
[/quote]
Nothing to do with "McCarthyism". Actually, McCarthy had nothing to
"McCarthyism" either.
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Glen Walpert
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:51 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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On 29 Jul 2008 14:15:44 GMT, Jim Yanik <jyanik@abuse.gov> wrote:
[quote]"Tim Williams" <tmoranwms@charter.net> wrote in
news:xkEjk.883$3l5.714@newsfe06.iad:
"AndyS" <andysharpe@juno.com> wrote in message
news:42c30ccf-8747-4359-b80a-4f68b83fd692@p31g2000prf.googlegroups.com.
..
When he turned it on for the first time, I blew cigarette smoke thru
the plastic tube...
Such a commotion !!!!
The other way to do that is to stick a resistor in the power cord
receptacle (IEC or cheater cord, etc.).
Tim
that>s like twisting a piece of bubble wrap when a tech turns on a repair.
[/quote]
The best example of alarming a co-worker I know of happened while a 20
ton toilet paper greasing machine was being rigged for loading onto a
truck, and some idiot reached under the partially raised machine to
grab a sling (big time safety rule violation). Someone tipped over a
nearby four foot square 1" thick steel plate which hit flat on the
concrete floor with a bang that could be felt through the floor quite
nicely just as the idiot reached the sling. After the fight was
broken up there was an extended trip to the mens room for clean-up
:-). |
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z
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:13 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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On Jul 28, 5:01 pm, "Ken S. Tucker" <dynam...@vianet.on.ca> wrote:
[quote]In Public School I decided to try to build a carbon
carbon arc lamp using 2 pencils, and it worked.
1st I screwed in to the pencils the leads, and
that worked but the wood started to smoulder.
Later I removed the graphite and wire wrapped
around the naked leads, that worked too.
My Old Boy got a little testy when I blew a few
fuses per day (in the 60>s they were 25 cents a
piece), so he advised a series resistance, like
a heater or light bulb. BINGO!
Fortunately no permanent retinal damage.
Ken
[/quote]
well, weird is one thing, dumb is another. one day i decided to see
how many amps the wall socket could deliver, using my multimeter.... |
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ZACK.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:48 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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"FatBytestard" <FatBytestard@somewheronyourharddrive.org> wrote in message
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[quote]On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:16:41 +1000, "ZACK." <youwillfindme@home.com.au
wrote:
my brother tried to get the lead out of
a 22 bullit with a hammer, and it fired.
Why are you a top posting retard? Oh yeah... the bullet hit you in the
head.
[/quote]
i will top side bottem left right round post
if i wont to.
[quote]
We used to fire boxes of .22s with a flat rock and a hammer.
I modified my .22 pellet pistol to accept a .22 short cartridge.
Getting it to fire was the interesting part.[/quote] |
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ZACK.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:58 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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how bout this one
a kid at school stuck a peace of solder in
the power point in eletrical and switched it on
knocked him off his stool.
"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote in message
news:sjlu84tm5j1pjijo1u747u9ojt8lf61g0s@4ax.com...
[quote]On 29 Jul 2008 14:15:44 GMT, Jim Yanik <jyanik@abuse.gov> wrote:
"Tim Williams" <tmoranwms@charter.net> wrote in
news:xkEjk.883$3l5.714@newsfe06.iad:
"AndyS" <andysharpe@juno.com> wrote in message
news:42c30ccf-8747-4359-b80a-4f68b83fd692@p31g2000prf.googlegroups.com.
..
When he turned it on for the first time, I blew cigarette smoke thru
the plastic tube...
Such a commotion !!!!
The other way to do that is to stick a resistor in the power cord
receptacle (IEC or cheater cord, etc.).
Tim
that>s like twisting a piece of bubble wrap when a tech turns on a repair.
A high school friend stuck a straight pin through a line cord (and
nipped it off), and then watched when his sister plugged it in.
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
"it>s the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers:
http://www.trexon.com
Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers:
http://www.speff.com[/quote] |
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Frank Buss
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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z wrote:
[quote]well, weird is one thing, dumb is another. one day i decided to see
how many amps the wall socket could deliver, using my multimeter....
[/quote]
The fuse should avoid any dangerous effects, but looks like most
multimeters are not safe:
http://www.bgfe.de/bilder/pdf/bericht_sp_handmultimeter.pdf
http://www.bgfe.de/bilder/pdf/kurzschlussmultimeter1.wmv
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T
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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In article <488fca5b$0$2273$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
youwillfindme@home.com.au says...
[quote]how bout this one
a kid at school stuck a peace of solder in
the power point in eletrical and switched it on
knocked him off his stool.
[/quote]
That>s just someone being a dumbass. Even as a kid I knew AC power could
knock you on your ass, even just the 120V 15A sutff. My great
grandfather taught me quite a bit about electricity.
My father was a know-it-all so one day he decides to replace the kitchen
light fixture.
I was about 11 years old at the time. Told him to make sure the power
was cut and he assured me it was. Next thing I know the old man is on
his ass. I just looked at him with my "Told you so..." look.
Recently I had to fix a light fixture in my bathroom. But something was
off on the wiring. I>d cut the power to the room but was still getting
voltage across the pair of wires. Hmmm.. seems the neutral wasn>t
exactly neutral at all. Cut the power to the whole house and then
replaced the fixture. |
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T
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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In article <ef4v8452b2do2m7fsk4c4kdgr2a1lqg5h0@4ax.com>,
mart_in_medina@yah00.es says...
[quote]Later I removed the graphite and wire wrapped
[/quote]
Sounds like fun. My favorite was hooking a relay up to oscillate and
then feeding that into a step-up transformer. I nice pulsed DC signal at
high voltage was always fun to use on friends. |
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Archimedes' Lever
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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On 30 Jul 2008 02:53:23 GMT, Jim Yanik <jyanik@abuse.gov> wrote:
[quote]Archimedes' Lever <OneBigLever@InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote in
news:e99v849v51g77987bn0ilqchi1j4pn35p4@4ax.com:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:06:22 +0200, Martin Griffith
mart_in_medina@yah00.es> wrote:
DHS..... nasty idea, reminds of McCarthy, somehow. You really should
do something about them
Do you actually think that McCarthyism ever died out to begin with?
McCarthy turned out to be right,according to KGB records.
[/quote]
You>re a goddamned retard if you believe that utter horseshit. Are you
really so naive as to think that the KGB would pass on to us valid,
legitimate historical "information"?
Are you married to Rosie O>Retard too?
Yeah, sure, dingledorf... there were actors and writers in Hollywood
that were secret KGB operatives and were there to subvert The American
Way.
Shame they were using "The American Way" to achieve their goals. That
made it really hard to tell which ones "they" were.
I guess that Bill Gates and the oil companies are all commie thieves
too, right? |
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ItsASecretDummy
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:58:13 +1000, "ZACK." <youwillfindme@home.com.au>
wrote:
[quote]how bout this one
a kid at school stuck a peace of solder in
the power point in eletrical and switched it on
knocked him off his stool.
[/quote]
Jeez, come back when you have reached puberty, and long after you have
shed the gang boy retard style of writing. |
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