Most awful hack job, but my kid likes it

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Thanks, Robert. Both sound better than what we use. While it's rare to
have a problem with our system, it certainly isn't impossible. I can't
help but wonder how many children are injured here in the US.

Harold

Wow, the Schutzkontakt system looks really safe! I wonder if a kid
could shock himself if he wanted to try...

Type F (German 2-pin, side clip earth) CEE 7/4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_AC_power_plugs_&_sockets

Here in the US the voltage is lower (110VAC) than in Europe (220VAC,
correct)?

 

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Hey, when I was a kid we had these hot-dog cookers that just put 120VAC
through the hot dog. I think later models had a door with some kind of
interlock on it.

And way before that I figured out that with a filament transformer and
a battery that you can make some semi-impressive voltages, enough to
give someone a good jolt.

Never mind the Number 6 cell hooked up to the nail file to make sparks
and a good amount of RFI as you drag the wire across it . For some
reason the FCC doesn't require Part 15 certifcation of nail files but I
can guarantee you I made a lot more RFI with those than with anything
else I ever made!

Tim.

Shhh!!! Now you've done it... now those Iraqi dissidents will stock up
on nail files and batteries to jam the Coalition's radios!

 

[Ed Huntress]

They had one of those at a swim club we belonged to when I was a kid. The
dog would come down into a rack, behind a plastic window; probes would
plunge into each end; and the dog would wiggle, sizzle, and almost scream as
the steam found new holes to come out of. When the dog was done and the
probes came out, the probe-holes were a little blackened and a whisp of
smoke came out of each end.

It was scary and intimidating. I always waited a minute or two before
picking up the hot dog, to make sure all the electricity was out of it. It
was a stern warning, too, to anyone who might be thinking of doing something
that could get them fried in an electric chair.

 

[Harold and Susan Vordos]

As a matter of fact, I do.

But I guess all us niggers look alike to you.

*PLONK*

H

 

[Lew Hartswick]

Ed -

If you go fishing - that is how you drive worms out of the ground - two
prods
with 120V plug on the other end - insert several feet across in a
compost pile
(we used a 4' deep (years and years at the cabin) coffee grounds as the
pile)
and the worms bail out! Un plug (or turn into a worm pile) and with
plug in
hand, (safety first) - the other hand picks up worms and puts them in
the bucket.

Martin

Yes and if you wanted to pick worms up where there wasen't 120 available
the old hand cranked generators from an antique telephone worked just
fine also. Now just how many of you folks had one of those to play
with as a kid?
...lew...

 

[Ed Huntress]

Ed -

If you go fishing - that is how you drive worms out of the ground - two prods
with 120V plug on the other end - insert several feet across in a compost pile
(we used a 4' deep (years and years at the cabin) coffee grounds as the pile)
and the worms bail out! Un plug (or turn into a worm pile) and with plug in
hand, (safety first) - the other hand picks up worms and puts them in the

bucket.

Yeah, we had a discussion about this here a year or two ago. I remember
those war-surplus hand-crank generators they sold in Pop Mechanics and such
in the '50s. It always looked a little weird to me.

Anyway, some people have had great success with it, others haven't. Maybe it
varies with the conductivity of the ground.

Or maybe it's a matter of how tough and mean your local worms are.

 

[Rich the Newsgroup Wacko]

All right. Tell us about the Russian and the carrot slicer.

It's not necessarily a "Russian". He got fired for sticking his
pecker in the carrot slicer (except when I heard it, it was
the pickle packer). He goes to the tavern, and laments that he
just got fired for sticking his pecker in the pickle packer.
His pal asks, "What happened to the pickle packer?" "Oh, she
got fired too."
--
Cheers!
Rich
------
"A tired young trollop of Nome
Was worn out from her toes to her dome.
Eight miners came screwing,
But she said, "Nothing doing;
One of you has to go home!""

 

[Ed Huntress]

It's not necessarily a "Russian". He got fired for sticking his
pecker in the carrot slicer (except when I heard it, it was
the pickle packer). He goes to the tavern, and laments that he
just got fired for sticking his pecker in the pickle packer.
His pal asks, "What happened to the pickle packer?" "Oh, she
got fired too."

Aha! I should have known...

 

[gfulton]

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Yes and if you wanted to pick worms up where there wasen't 120 available
the old hand cranked generators from an antique telephone worked just
fine also. Now just how many of you folks had one of those to play
with as a kid?
...lew...

We did. And that's exactly what we used it for. Drainage ditches to gather
nightcrawlers.

 

[Martin H. Eastburn]

The coffee grounds really work - worms love them. Kills slugs also.
Martin
Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH, NRA Life
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

 

[Jasen Betts]

["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.]

Yeah, we had a discussion about this here a year or two ago. I remember
those war-surplus hand-crank generators they sold in Pop Mechanics and such
in the '50s. It always looked a little weird to me.

a turntable motor from an old microwave oven can generate plenty of volts if
hand cranked, I'm not sure if it's suitable for worming though.

Bye.
Jasen

 

[Si Ballenger]

snip-----

Take the rod and a long extention cord out in the yard and
wrangle up some earth worms!