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Hon1nbo
Thu Apr 09 2009, 08:08PM
Hon1nbo Registered Member #902 Joined: Sun Jul 15 2007, 08:17PM
Location: Pacific Northwest USA
Posts: 1042
here are some more pics of mine: a WWII Field Telephone set I picked up for $40 (Signal Corps Model EE-8-A), and some Raku Artwork (a guest artist at an arts festival crafted the ceramic, I glazed it)...


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Mads Barnkob
Mon Apr 13 2009, 09:40AM
Mads Barnkob Registered Member #1403 Joined: Tue Mar 18 2008, 06:05PM
Location: Denmark, Odense C
Posts: 1968
On my easter vacation I spend alot of time on the Danish west coast that is basicly sandy and flat wet plains, a perfect breeding place for some of the animals we hardly ever see in we living in the the city :)

We ran upon 3-4 snakes, about 50cm+ and believed it to be a harmless grass snake, so I went as close as 20cm for some of the photoes, when we got home I looked it up and it turns out it was a Common european viper, the only poisonous snake living in the wild in Denmark :)

They have not yet nested this early, so they mostly ran off instead of attacking, atleast I got some good shots!
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Proud Mary
Tue Apr 14 2009, 02:46AM
Proud Mary Registered Member #543 Joined: Tue Feb 20 2007, 04:26PM
Location: UK
Posts: 4992
I bought this splendid old 0-18.5 kV AC/DC electrostatic voltmeter on ebay for £10 (11 EUR / 98 NOK / US$15) and after a couple of hours work it is as good as new. The wooden case has come up wonderfully. I have tested it at three points along its scale, and it is as accurate as the eye can tell with an analogue meter.

Here it is, measuring the output of a 10kV NST:


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Chris Cristini
Wed Apr 15 2009, 01:10AM
Chris Cristini Registered Member #1749 Joined: Fri Oct 10 2008, 02:04AM
Location: Claremont New Hampshire
Posts: 497
A lot of power sitting in one spot.
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And here is somthing I am proud of.
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Proud Mary
Wed Apr 15 2009, 01:53AM
Proud Mary Registered Member #543 Joined: Tue Feb 20 2007, 04:26PM
Location: UK
Posts: 4992
MadsKaizer wrote ...

we got home I looked it up and it turns out it was a Common european viper, the only poisonous snake living in the wild in Denmark :

A splendid picture of a viper (also more commonly called "an adder" in England, but both are correct)

Like Danmark, it is the only poisonous snake we have in Britain, and though people are frightened of them, there is only one definite recorded death by adder bite in Britain since 1900.

A few years ago, one sunny day, I went ashore on an island in the Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland - an island uninhabited since the 1930s - and have never seen so many adders in all my life! With no humans to bother them, and few predators, I saw perhaps six or seven drowsy snakes sunbathing on sandy spots amongst the heather in my first hour or two ashore.

The snakes were untroubled by my appearance, and I just walked quietly by at a good distance, without the reptiles stirring from their sunbathing, but I wish I had been able to take pictures of them as you have.

Last summer I visited Pevensey Castle, a Roman fort about 50km from where I live - and was lucky anough the see a grass snake swimming in the moat, moving along the edges among the reeds, perhaps looking for young frogs. I was standing on the drawbridge that leads into the castle gate, and so was able to look straight down on the grass snake hunting in the green water, where I also noticed some tench.

Grass snakes have a very visible white ring behind the head, whilst the adder, as you know, has its splendid zig-zag pattern.

Wonderful stuff. Thank you for sharing this fine picture with us.
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Cesiumsponge
Wed Apr 15 2009, 04:08AM
Cesiumsponge Registered Member #397 Joined: Wed Apr 19 2006, 12:56AM
Location: Western Washington
Posts: 125
A couple more random abstracts as I progress on my mystery project.


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Proud Mary
Wed Apr 15 2009, 08:33AM
Proud Mary Registered Member #543 Joined: Tue Feb 20 2007, 04:26PM
Location: UK
Posts: 4992
Mercury-Argon Thyratrons Type 393A

I bought these two beauties, new and boxed, to drive the Rayleigh pulse forming networks with which I'm amusing myself at the moment.

Specs are:

1250V forward and reverse
6A peak
55A surge
120A 100ms (max recoverable fault)
g1 -500V
Ti 10us @ -500V g1
voltage drop 10V
PRF max 420 Hz.

filament 2.5V/7A


Argon Thyratron 4


You can see condensed mercury on the inside of the glass of the valve with its back facing upwards.

They are a bit sluggish as thyratrons go - best ionization time is 10us with -500VDC on the grid - but in single shot firing no harm will come to them switching 30A, which is a good old wallop at 1250V . smile
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teslacoolguy
Tue Apr 21 2009, 03:33PM
teslacoolguy Registered Member #1107 Joined: Thu Nov 08 2007, 10:09PM
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A little silicon i have laying around wink Link2
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Kizmo
Tue Apr 21 2009, 07:53PM
Kizmo Registered Member #599 Joined: Thu Mar 22 2007, 07:40PM
Location: Northern Finland, Rovaniemi
Posts: 624

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My latest toy. Rubber boot next to it is size 46 (european)
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Renesis
Tue Apr 21 2009, 09:03PM
Renesis Registered Member #2028 Joined: Mon Mar 16 2009, 08:13PM
Location: Norway
Posts: 319
Kizmo wrote ...

My latest toy. Rubber boot next to it is size 46 (european)


You have a lot of MOTs mister, and now a pole pig. Its like a torturechamber for electrons tongue

What are you plans for that transformer?
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