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\"Oooo Matronnnnnnnnnnn!\"
I\'ve heard of discreet hand-operated pumps for that condition, but I\'ve
never heard of a motor-assisted dick.
Completely unnecessary. All you need is the power to stop if something
shorts so you don\'t set fire to your house.
Are circuit breakers completely unnecessary? What\'s to limit current
and wires getting hot inside walls?
On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 09:09:40 -0800, John Larkin, another obviously brain
dead, troll-feeding senile asshole, blathered:
Completely unnecessary. All you need is the power to stop if something
shorts so you don\'t set fire to your house.
Are circuit breakers completely unnecessary? What\'s to limit current
and wires getting hot inside walls?
Yes, you troll-feeding senile idiot: He also considers seat belts
unnecessary, red traffic lights, as well as speed limits, as well as
underwear and a lot of other things! LMAO
On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 18:59:34 +0100, Peeler <trolltrap@valid.invalid
wrote:
On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 09:09:40 -0800, John Larkin, another obviously brain
dead, troll-feeding senile asshole, blathered:
Completely unnecessary. All you need is the power to stop if something
shorts so you don\'t set fire to your house.
Are circuit breakers completely unnecessary? What\'s to limit current
and wires getting hot inside walls?
Yes, you troll-feeding senile idiot: He also considers seat belts
unnecessary, red traffic lights, as well as speed limits, as well as
underwear and a lot of other things! LMAO
What do you do? There is a class of people, typically technicians, who
hate engineers. We do what is, to them, magic that they can\'t
understand.
On 3/5/2023 9:13 AM, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 18:59:34 +0100, Peeler <trolltrap@valid.invalid
wrote:
On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 09:09:40 -0800, John Larkin, another obviously brain
dead, troll-feeding senile asshole, blathered:
Completely unnecessary. All you need is the power to stop if something
shorts so you don\'t set fire to your house.
Are circuit breakers completely unnecessary? What\'s to limit current
and wires getting hot inside walls?
Yes, you troll-feeding senile idiot: He also considers seat belts
unnecessary, red traffic lights, as well as speed limits, as well as
underwear and a lot of other things! LMAO
What do you do? There is a class of people, typically technicians, who
hate engineers. We do what is, to them, magic that they can\'t
understand.
Hate??
Really?
On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 10:25:27 -0800, Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/5/2023 9:13 AM, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 18:59:34 +0100, Peeler <trolltrap@valid.invalid
wrote:
On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 09:09:40 -0800, John Larkin, another obviously brain
dead, troll-feeding senile asshole, blathered:
Completely unnecessary. All you need is the power to stop if something
shorts so you don\'t set fire to your house.
Are circuit breakers completely unnecessary? What\'s to limit current
and wires getting hot inside walls?
Yes, you troll-feeding senile idiot: He also considers seat belts
unnecessary, red traffic lights, as well as speed limits, as well as
underwear and a lot of other things! LMAO
What do you do? There is a class of people, typically technicians, who
hate engineers. We do what is, to them, magic that they can\'t
understand.
Hate??
Really?
Yes, I\'ve seen several cases.
On 01/03/2023 12:40, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 03:41:11 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 15:12:42 -0800, Bob F wrote:
I was just going to say that the pic reminded me of the motor in my
erector set when I was 5 yo. I remember building a crane a few feet tall
powered by that motor/gearbox.
The fun project was a device to electrocute your friends. I\'m working
from
memory but you build a box to hold a couple of D cells, that had a crank
with a gear at one end. Then you constructed a set of points with two
flat
metal pieces and an insulating strip that would make and break as you
turned the crank and two girder type pieces for the electrodes. Then you
wired it up to the motor and used the inductance of the motor coil.
It was sort of a DIY TENS system.
Capacitor ladders are way more fun. You can get a million volts.
I remember a friend had been given a pair of field telephones which used
hand-cranked magnetos to ring each other. He wired the magneto to the
aluminium loft ladder and to a bit of tin foil on the floor of his
bedroom (*) and turned the handle as I reached the top and instinctively
put my hand on the foil. I nearly fell down the ladder. What a jape ;-)
Moral: be suspicious if you see a strange bit of tinfoil, and hear a
frantic winding of the magneto handle and suppressed laughter - and
don\'t go up the ladder in bare feet. I\'d guess those magnetos produced
about 80-100 V - a nasty belt :-(
(*) When his sister was born, his dad converted the loft into a new
bedroom for my friend, reached by a retracting loft ladder past which
everyone had to squeeze to reach the bathroom and separate loo. It
stayed like that for as long as I knew him afterwards - no room for a
proper staircase.
On 01/03/2023 12:45, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 23:12:42 -0000, Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/19/2023 1:10 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 13 Feb 2023 16:02:34 +0100, \"Carlos E. R.\"
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
I was given by a friend an Erector Set motor that he had burned out
iirc.
\"Oooo Matronnnnnnnnnnn!\"
I\'ve heard of discreet hand-operated pumps for that condition, but I\'ve
never heard of a motor-assisted dick.
On 01/03/2023 12:44, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 21:10:52 -0000, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
When I was a kid we went on holiday to a cottage which was part of many
being built. For some reason on the rough ground nearby were loads of
loose bits of wire, I collected a tonne of it. Lasted me for years for
all sorts of things.
And also of course there\'s the local tip, where you can get interesting
stuff like old tumble dryers and take them to bits.
I also had no real use for the motor.
I collected more motors than I ever used, ended up putting a box of 150
miscellaneous motors on freecycle. A young enthusiast took the lot.
I collected more loudspeakers that I knew what to do with - from old
radios etc. I also found a really good one in a wooden soundbox, at the
local tip (*), and connected it by a long length of GPO telephone \"drop
cable\" that the GPO man gave me when he changed the cable from the pole
to the house due to crackling on the line.
So I had this speaker in the garden shed, fed by the GPO cable from
dad\'s record player - I must have driven the neighbours mad.
I also went armed with a screwdriver whenever we went on holiday, and if
I found a derelict car in a \"car dump\" (**) I\'d remove the speedo and
switches.
I mounted a Ford Anglia speedo with the cable connected to a
Meccano motor, which was switched on and off by a Mini ignition switch
(using the key number stamped on the switch).
The Anglia speedo thus
registered about 50 mph when the key was turned on. I also had a Mini
headlamp as the main light in the den that I built in the loft, and
another motor to raise/lower a cardboard gullwing door on the den. All
powered from a mains-to-12V transformer.
(*) Near where we lived, the council used to put out a couple of skips
in a layby for people to dump anything they no longer needed. People
were always rooting through the skips, Womble-like, to nab anything that
looked interesting from the \"things that the everyday folk leave
behind\".
Wouldn\'t be allowed nowadays: all skips have to be supervised
rather than just being left unattended,
and taking things from skips has
been criminalised: even though someone has left an object there to go
into landfill etc, it is still deemed to belong to them and to be theft
if you remove it.
Incidentally, and I kid you not, there is a recycling centre in North
Yorkshire at a place called Wombleton:
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/wombleton-household-waste-recycling-centre
- how very appropriate.
(**) A scenic little valley just down the road from a caravan site where
we were staying had been used as an unofficial car dump and there were
various Minis, Austin 1100s, Cortinas and Corsairs loosely stacked. It
must have been incredibly dangerous for me to go clambering over and in
these cars,
but no-one really cared. My dad even helped me. I remember
being very proud of the \"knee-capping stalk\" from an early Ford Consul
Cortina/Corsair (pre-Aeroflow facelift) - this was a metal (or else very
hard plastic) tube that stuck out from the steering column with tab
switches for indicators and lights, and a button on the end for the
horn. In an accident, it was ideally placed to take your kneecap off :-(
Trains are about 5x as efficient as trucks for moving stuff.
Has maglev ever really worked? Most maglev systems came and went.
On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 12:57:03 -0700, John Larkin, another obviously brain
dead, troll-feeding senile asshole, blathered:
Trains are about 5x as efficient as trucks for moving stuff.
Has maglev ever really worked? Most maglev systems came and went.
Is it about trains now? I thought it was about circuit breakers, you idiotic
blithering trolling shitheads.
No, just different tastes in colors maybe.
There are known group genetic differences in food tastes and things
like alcohol and lactose metabolism. And tested IQ. It\'s politically
incorrect to mention racial genetics these days, a disservice to
people who might get better medical care if we took everything into
account.
Not enough information in there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM_stereo
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 07:59:47 -0700, John Larkin, another obviously brain
dead, troll-feeding senile asshole, blathered:
Why do so many people, always male, constantly obsess on digestive
exit ports and end-products? More fiber in your diet might help.
I think the entry port of the digestive system is much more appealing.
I just finished an amazing cherry croissant and two cups of Peets, and
they were very nice together.
Just how much senile shit will you still squeeze out of your sick senile
head, you senile cretin?
Just how much senile shit will you still squeeze out of your sick senile
head, you senile cretin?
It must be awful to be in constant abdominal distress. There things
that you can do that would help.
\"is\" is too short. \"a\" is even worse.
On 2023-04-16, John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 01:13:54 -0700, boB <boB@K7IQ.com> wrote:
On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 15:05:22 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 23:14:37 +0200, Peeler <trolltrap@valid.invalid
wrote:
On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 13:13:05 -0700, John Larkin, the absolutely brain dead,
troll-feeding senile asshole, blathered:
You are correct. Violent shivering is good exercize.
I wore a parka and a hat yesterday while I was skiing. My bad.
I did wear jeans and not fancy padded ski pants.
Take yourself and your sick senile SHIT off these newsgroups, you absolutely
idiotic trolling senile ASSHOLE!
Design any cool electronics lately?
Is Phil back ?
I wonder why people who don\'t design electronics come here to shriek
insults and obscenities. I think there is a reason.
off topic seems to be often the norm, more\'s the pity on ALL the
newsgorups this got posted to.
I\'m reading this on uk.d-i-y! So where\'s the DIY content? That\'s ther tro9uble with cross-posting.
with apologies for following up.