Almost too many toys...

[TVC]

That's fun. I had to go to Budapest to do that a couple of years back, failing HV transformers is quite interesting

People don't realise the mechanical forces that go on inside transformers. The kind of grey box you find at the end on your street can generate an inpulse force of 30 tonnes in a short circuit fault, basically the same as hitting the core with a lorry.

 

[vernon]

Jetex fuse made excellent detonators for my home-made bombs when I was a teenager. You just short circuit them using a command wire and a motorbike battery.

I set fire to the contents of my desk in French with some saltpetre soaked string (destined to be bomb fuse) that was burning too hot to extinguish with my fingers the classroom dialogue went like this:

Miss Veitch: 'Levy! is that smoke coming out of your desk?'
Me: 'No miss.'
Miss Veitch: 'If it's not smoke, what is it?'
Me: 'Mist, miss'
Miss Veitch: 'Open your drawer Levy!'

The drawer was reluctantly pulled out, the smouldering detritus comprised mainly of Spangle, Opel Fruit, Fruit Salad, Black jack and Bazooka Joe wrappers exposed to lots of fresh oxygen burst into flames. Jike and Boz sitting near me excitedly rushed for the fire extinguisher fought for control, hit the button and liberally sprayed me and the contents of the drawer getting great pleasure from the excercise.

Miss Veitch: 'Levy! Go and stand in the foyer!!'

Leaving a trail of water I headed to the foyer strategically placed on the flightpath to the headmaster's office. The pending outcome was a forgone conclusion......

 

[Gravity Aided]

These will soon put a stop to it.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgTJZ_cWaT0


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf3dHfucoQk

 

[ArDee]

Definitely with pulse jets. +1 arrived today.

Possibly with Tesla coils but it will be difficult and expensive to outperform the first acquisition.

Each side of the rear rack sounds good to me

 

[KEEF]

vernon is this yours

 

[Gravity Aided]

Radio control is for softies.

I intend to fly wrestle mine on a control line aircraft.

However do you spin around that fast?

 

[vernon]

However do you spin around that fast?

Pulse jets planes are only flown for a handful of laps at a time so it's not that bad. 1000 lap endurance team races with 0.15 cu. in. diesel engines are a different matter.....

 

[Gravity Aided]

Wow.