11-year old "engineer" needs counseling

I think it is ISO-666

I've seen batteries made from seven 9 volt batteries which were "stacked" together to simulate the old 67.5 volt batteries. They were

There were 67.5 volt "B" batteries; Eveready 467, for example. These were made from 45 standard 1.5 volt "A" cells in series.

...are you talking about those containers of explosive liquid?

On a sunny day (Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:31:01 +0000) it happened Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote in :

:-)

On a sunny day (Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:30:17 +0000) it happened Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote in :

Face recognition these days:-)

Would India be a good place to score an ancient Soviet-made portable tube radio?

Well, if I was designing it the hero would not be able to get close enough to cut anything without setting it off. I'd also put in an ionizing radiation detector in case they tried to X-ray it. Not to mention a case with a photodiode inside that triggers on any illumination - IR, UV or visible

How about Russia, or Borat's home town?

You could try posting to a Russian NG

I'll endeavor to poke around some frosty antique shops about 250 mi from Vladivostock shortly.. but not in Russia nor N. Korea. IIRC, some Soviet televisions were made in their far east.

Which reminds me, I've got a picture of a weird round oscilloscope CRT-like vacuum tube, but it has a kind of nipple right in the middle of where the screen would be, and a kind of arc segment structure inside. I'll try to scan it in case anyone recognizes what this thing is.

Hmmm.. not sure that would help much, seeing as it's Chinese in origin and I don't speak Russian, but here's a link:

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Vircator?

Have you tried the antique radio newsgroup? news:rec.antiques.radio+phono has people from around the world. There are also several antique radio forums, when they can keep them up and running.

Showmanship..1) where are those blasted cutters? 2) which wire do i cut - the green one or the red one (never mind ther are a lot of others twisting arou here and there)? 3) can i do it in time?

Interesting...an "intelligent" explosive device...so it can pick whose nose to blow...

Hard to say. The problem is in dealing with Indians from a distance, especially from a remote corner of the country. It's not that we lack the technical infrastucture - we have the Internet, snail mail, a reasonably efficient postal service and a profusion of private couriers. It has something to do with the Indian mentality. It's a perennial source of frustration for me because 9 out of 10 of my emails are unanswered.

On a sunny day (Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:59:36 -0800) it happened Robert Baer wrote in :

Typical CIA thing :-)

On a sunny day (Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:12:02 +0000) it happened Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote in :

Let's play, this device with face recognition is ment to be positioned in advance in some place, maybe a restaurant, or some room, where evil politician X (Tony B.?), or bad guy Y (his spindoctor?), regularly, but at unknown times, comes.

I heard M5 (Yes I can hear you guys) talking about my idea:-) Some time ago they were looking for guys to design that sort of stuff, looking for a 'Q'. I would not work for them for triple pay :-) And I sort of take it one would have to be 100% British, like James 007, who knows what color wine to drink with the fish :-) I'd have ketchup with the fish [and chips], so I am out.

Sticking out tongue.

On a sunny day (Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:55:12 +0530) it happened "pimpom" wrote in : It's a perennial source of frustration for me

But that is normal!