[sdiy] frying tonight...

[steven_thomas]

Talking  about dangerous hobbies...check out this guys webpages..he enjoys
torturing poor innocent chips (and most other things it seems) using a tesla
coil! Looks like he's living on borrowed time..


http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~wwl/electric.html

cheers
steve thomas






Synth-DIY pages:-
http://monopole.ph.qmw.ac.uk/~thomas/synthdiy/index.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Schreiber <synth1 at airmail.net>
To: Ken Stone <sasami at blaze.net.au>
Cc: synthDIY <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 12:34 AM
Subject: [sdiy] DIY rocketry


>
> >
> > >when I was 11yrs old, and nearly killed myself 3 times with Estes model
> > >rockets.
> >
> > I wonder how many DIYers have NOT managed to nearly blow themselves up.
I
> > bet it's a minority. My friend put a home made rocket motor through his
> leg.
> > I was at a "safe" distance of about five feet away at the time.
> >
>
> There was a big news article yesterday where a NASA engineer blew himself
up
> in his backyard
> mixing fuel for a home-made chemical rocket.
>
> Rocketry is a classic case of "progressive danger syndrome" where each
time,
> you get crazier building a bigger,
> more powerful one. Until common sense kicks in. I got scared with the
> Centaur F-97 engines (shipped by
> rail only) and decided I liked having 2 eyes and 10 fingers. I also shyed
> away from high voltage and
> carbon arc lights (my dad's personal favorites, with a meat loaf pan/salt
> water rheostat. Trash can lid as
> UV reflector).
>
> Around 1973 rocketry was at a peak, and potassium chlorate was cheap. I'm
> surprised I'm still alive. You
> haven't lived until you put 2 cups sugar, 1 cup KCLO4 in a paint can and
> watch yellow flames shoot 30 ft
> in the air, as the can melts, THEN the asphalt melts. Who called the damn
> fire dept.??!?
>
> Paul S.
>
>
>