[sdiy] stupid solder

[KA4HJH]

>OT: Many years ago, I read somewhere (don´t remember where) about a guy
>that had a bad "solder" (don´t know how to call it, it´s that thing the
>dentists use to fill holes in our teeth...)

Amalgam

>that was detecting AM radio
>stations. The rectified voltage was traveling from the tooth to the
>inner ear by some nerves, and he thought he was getting crazy!
>
>Nobody belives me when I tell...  :-(

Heh, this is an old story.  It's happened many times, and not just with
teeth. This is what happens when you go sticking pieces of metal in the
human body. What if it happened to your dog? How would you ever know why
Sparky is acting so strangely?

And it doesn't have to be something surgically implanted. If anything forms
a lousy PN junction somewhere it has the potential to detect radio signals.
Recently James Randi had a claimant for his $1M psychic prize because a
woman heard voices from her coffee maker! It wasn't her imagination, but
she wasn't psychic, either.

Batz has a story about a talking washing machine...
-- 

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

"You'd PAY to know what you REALLY think"--Dobbs