[sdiy] Home Wiring question?

[Dave Magnuson]

That sounds like ***way*** more fun than my propane-powered potato 
cannon....

Although launching a potato straight through 1/2" plywood is pretty 
impressive.

Dave


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Arnold" <xyzzy at sysabend.org>
To: "Dave Magnuson" <resfreq at hoohahrecords.com>
Cc: "'synth diy'" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Home Wiring question?

> The house I'm renting had crappy grounding.  Solved with the rent of the
> Ground Gun(tm).  A 10 foot long 500 lb contraption I rented that I'm sure
> contravenes many arms treaties.  Put the brass cap on the end of your hard
> drawn steel core copper grounding rod, slide it into the Ground Gun, tilt 
> it
> upright and attach the guy wires.  Take the control cable, go aroudn the
> corner of the house and hit the button after turning the arm key.  Loud
> explosion and grounding rod is impaled into the ground, and the Department
> of Homeland Security shows up a few minutes later looking for Osama.
>
> Was an amusing 10 minutes...
>
> I *so* wanted to try firing it up...
>
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