Bizarre Stuff

[Dog Star (Phil)]

What with the wonderful rain keeping me indoors, I'm spending more time on the Web than I normally would. (Just as an aside, does anyone else think that the WWW is one of the greatest time wasters in history?)
Be that as it may, I stumbled across this site which looks like being a lot of fun as well as interesting.
http://bizarrelabs.com/control.htm
I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who attempts to build the Tesla coil.
Cheers.

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Well, speaking of bizzare coils (not quite telsa voltage tho, but I was tempted), I made "magnetic gun" of sorts. A few turns of copper wire around a tube, and 800v DC pulsed into it (via an SCR), with a 1/2" loose bolt inserted into the coil shot the bolt clear across the workshop and severly dented a shelf, does that count? . I saw a video of a 50KV odd (via a capacitor made of many sheets of aluminium, spaced by glad wrap) "squash" a $1 coin to half its size (inside a wire coil). It vapourised the coil and switch device in the process of course, but what an adventure , I love this shiet, destroying stuff with electricity, how good does it get

[kinetic (Steve)]

Originally Posted by Dog Star

Just as an aside, does anyone else think that the WWW is one of the greatest time wasters in history?

Phil,
speaking of time wasting, how about this for an excuse not to do
all the outstanding maintenance jobs on the house.
I think just about everyone has had a dabble at these.....
Here is my rocket page from ages ago:
http://mywebsite.bigpond.com/astrosteve/rockets.html

Steve

[xelasnave]

WWW a waste of time never...

Love the sites referred to in this thread.

alex

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Alex

You have to be kidding right

Stuffing around with physics, actually doing it, is way more fun than just reading about it, shurely you see the point, dont you ?. Sheesh, it would be a sad world if we were all just armchair critics

[xelasnave]

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Alex

You have to be kidding right

Stuffing around with physics, actually doing it, is way more fun than just reading about it, shurely you see the point, dont you ?. Sheesh, it would be a sad world if we were all just armchair critics

Hey I have stuffed alfoil in a power point and thrown the switch...and I am collecting a bucket of dark matter as well.
alex

[Bassnut (Fred)]

OK Alex, that counts, join the luny done-that club

[erick (Eric)]

http://members.iinet.net.au/~pterren/

[avandonk]

For all things Tesla see here

http://tesladownunder.com/

Bert

[Dog Star (Phil)]

This is turning out to be a lot of fun!
Thanks to all for the links.
Damn! I'm trying to read all this stuff as well as watching 2001 on SBS.

[Ric]

I stuck a fork in a power point and switched it on when I was 5. All I remember was a green flash and flying across the lounge room.

That was my introduction to electricity and DONT try that one at home kids.

[xstream (John)]

From memory Peter is a member at IIS!

Originally Posted by erick

http://members.iinet.net.au/~pterren/