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AA Silencers

AA Silencers

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Your own electric blanket?! That sounds safe. How about your own electric kettle. Get a pot of water and add electricity.

No wonder everyone thought smoking wasn't dangerous back then!
 
Gramaisc

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AA Silencers said:
Your own electric blanket?! That sounds safe.
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They did take the precaution of transforming down to 12 volts.
AA Silencers said:
How about your own electric kettle. Get a pot of water and add electricity.
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I knew somebody whose only means of water heating in his new house was a back-boiler behind an open fire. It the summer it was a bit inconvenient to light this just for one bath and boiling lots of kettles was too slow - so he used to pass the mains current directly through the water in the bath by immersing two copper plates and monitoring the current with an ammeter - the current was regulated by altering the area of the plates that were submerged in order to avoid blowing the fuse. It worked a treat until he finally got round to fitting an immersion heater in the tank..

Do not try this at home! - or anywhere else.
 
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My Name is URL said:
Forget where I found this, may even have been on this thread so if its repeating a previous post, apologies:

http://tedr.tumblr.com/post/33962636816/99-life-hacks-to-make-your-life-easier
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Excellent - I particularly like the tennis ball ideas.
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AA Silencers

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I'm loving some of these websites. I could lose days looking at all the crazy things I could make. I like the idea of copper plates to heat the bath water. With a bit of modification you could probably electroplate someone. Now that would look cool.
 
Gramaisc

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AA Silencers said:
I'm loving some of these websites. I could lose days looking at all the crazy things I could make. I like the idea of copper plates to heat the bath water. With a bit of modification you could probably electroplate someone. Now that would look cool.
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plate - or cute..?


You would need to rectify the supply for plating - AC would just move it back and forth.
 
AA Silencers

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You are correct, as I say it would take a little modification. Regardless of the electroplating, I think passing AC current through someone in a bath would definitely move them back and forth. Quite violently in fact. For a short while.
 
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wmrcomputers said:
I've recently been building my own arcade style 2p pusher (AKA Penny Falls) and it got me to thinking what else have people built from their own designs etc. I initially was going to post this in the geeks and gadgets thread, but then you might have created a very different style of cake, built in wardrobes with colour changing lighting or anything really.

I've NEVER (and I literally mean NEVER) been into any form of DIY, so my acheivement of building a penny pusher has been something I am proud enough of to share. I've just got the final few bits which I hope to finish this week and then I will post pictures / videos for people to see.
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I have seen this project today - and it is a very impressive method of getting the kids' pocket money back..!
 
wmrcomputers

wmrcomputers

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AA Silencers said:
That looks great. Have you won much on it yet?
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No I don't know where I'm going wrong. Even when I kick it and run off with the money that drops I don't seem to be any better off ;)

That reminds me of the "Bottom" episode where Eddie goes out and mugs himself and is so chuffed that he made a fiver :D
 
AA Silencers

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I used to have a canary named after Eddie Hitler from Bottom. It made sense at the time. Can't remember why though.
 
wmrcomputers

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Difficult to say as it was done a bit here and a bit there whenever I had a few hours to spare. I've actually listed it on ebay now with surprising results... 10 day auction starting at 99p, still 8 days to go and a massive 80 people keeping watch on it and it's already up to £150. I think it could be the first of many ;)
 
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