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Dr. Slack

Wed Oct 04 2006, 07:20PM

Registered Member #72 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:29AM
Location: UK St. Albans
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My wife called me at work today in a somewhat agitated state. She tolerates my various contraptions, the occasional smell of smoke or ozone, but this time she was in no mood to be civil. "Your damned garage, WHAT HAVE YOU LEFT RUNNING IN THERE? There were several small beeps and then an almighty explosion. I want to know whether it's safe to stay in the house, should I call the fire brigade, the nuclear emergencies team, how dare you leave something on while you're out at work, I haven't seen any smoke from under the door yet, but I'm not going to go in and find out". My protestations of innocence fell on disbelieving ears, and I promised to sort it out when I got home.

My reception when I got home was a little different. "I've found out what was going on. The beeps were from the smoke alarm, it wants a new battery. The bang didn't come from your garage, but from this football". We had a garden tidy up at the weekend, and I found a nearly-dead football behind a bush. Ever the optimist, I inflated it to see whether it would stay up. The time and weather weakened stitching failed catastrophically a few days later.

It's good to know I have the complete trust of my significant other

How is the tendency of other members of the forum to make and do unusual things tolerated by their nearest and dearest?

stop4stuff

Wed Oct 04 2006, 07:53PM

Registered Member #64 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 06:25AM
Location: Southampton, UK
Posts: 68

wifey's cool with my lego diamagnetic levitation jig on some shelves in the lounge...
a magnet's been floating for about 3 years now

Simon

Thu Oct 05 2006, 01:10AM

Registered Member #32 Joined: Sat Feb 04 2006, 08:58AM
Location: Australia
Posts: 549

Back in my early teens there was a weird smell in the house and my parents came into my room with very grim faces. They were just starting to lecture me about the dangers of the chemicals when Mum realised she'd left the plastic handle of a frying pan sitting on the hotplate of the stove...

Electroholic

Thu Oct 05 2006, 04:56AM

Registered Member #191 Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 02:01AM
Location: Esbjerg Denmark
Posts: 720

lol
once i was trying to make elastic sulfur, when i accidentally produced some SO2...in my room...
i opened the window wide, and ran out to the living room, coughing my head off...
scared the crap out of my mom

Steve Conner

Thu Oct 05 2006, 10:12AM

Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 6706

I once left a big NiCd battery pack (10 cells bigger than "D" size) on to charge overnight in my bedroom and was woken at 4 in the morning by it exploding. I think one of the cells had generated gas inside, swollen up, and caused the rest of the battery to push against its metal case and short out completely. Two of the cells popped their tops and the room was full of foul smelling steam. I remember throwing it out of the window into the garden and going back to bed.

My parents never liked my Tesla coils much either

They were cool with everything else I ever built, but I guess Tesla coils were just too far.

Marko

Thu Oct 05 2006, 10:33AM

Registered Member #89 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 02:40PM
Location: Zadar, Croatia
Posts: 3145

Haha. Any time they see interference on TV for any reason my parents come to room to see what I turned on

Avalanche

Thu Oct 05 2006, 12:17PM

Registered Member #103 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:16PM
Location: Derby, UK
Posts: 845

That's exactly what happens to me as well, I always get the blame for TV interference even if it isn't me! A few months ago I found that my dad had yelled upstairs for me to stop messing up the TV, while at the time I was actually out

Dr. Drone

Thu Oct 05 2006, 04:26PM

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Hazmatt_(The Underdog)

Thu Oct 05 2006, 05:11PM

Registered Member #135 Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 12:06AM
Location: Anywhere is fine
Posts: 1735

I've left the soldering station on after leaving the house. Bad idea. You don't want to be resoponsible for starting a fire.

When I was living with my mom in a real house (with my dad in a townhome now) we used to put on halloween haunted houses. I didn't have any flyback drivers at the time, so I use an entire tube TV set and left it intact minus the tube and the normal stuff you see. So all you would see is the chassis with all the tubes and the Jachob's ladder. Well, she was flipping out because of all of the ozone it produced and I really couldn't blame her because while I was setting it up and testing I overexposed myself and was hacking up a bunch of junk.

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