Here is the evidence that lightning will go where ever it chooses. It started at the electrical outlet and finished up in the plumbing. The aluminum (sorry not silver) in the mirror provided a low impedance (resistance) path to ground. The first picture is of course simulated but shows what happened. The second shows where the coating vaporized off the cover plate in line with the neutral wire screw head. There were similar spots at...
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The Big Boom!
This is not about how the universe was created. It is about how some matter was destroyed, converted to energy so to speak. A good (true) story for the 4th of July. You have read about the many disasters Gloria and I have been through in the last several years. You know, “The Great Crash” and then there was “A House Fire (Almost)”. My sprained ankle hardly counts except it has taken a month to...
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I am off the subject of computers for awhile, maybe. I have been working on supplying a high speed spindle made by Taig Tools, Inc. for the CNC router folks. The spindle is used for the Taig micro-mill and CNC-mill. I have found it to be a very nice addition to my personal gantry CNC router I call the HB2. Not high power but the low noise level is very suitable for residential use. I...
Continue reading...Tessa’s 1st Year Present
I made my granddaughter’s first year birthday present. You can see it here in the picture. It is one of the first projects to be totally finished after being carved on my home made HB2, 3-D router. I thought about making this when she was first born, a year ago. But the HB2 was still in the design stages. I did think at the time this was the sort of thing that would be perfect...
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