Weird stuff you did as a brat?

We had a 25hp 1993 Evinrude, beautiful motor, quiet, ultra good mileage, lots of power on 14' Al boat.

I don't like inner tubes, the valve stem ends up in funny places, I think they could cause gayism, butt maybe that's why they're called inner tubes. Ken

Having owned one, I'm sure you can imagine the difficulty of keeping the nose of a boogie board down with that motor bolted to it! Fortunately it was an old junker we got running just to try this half baked idea. Could only get about two rides each day though (when you fall off, it sinks then have to pull it up on shore and dry it out). Did this in the shallow portion of the York river in Seaford,VA.

Steve

I *read* that a running motor going submerged usually blows a rod, cuz it suks water into the carb and then into the cylinder, I suppose that's not true? Otherwise I suppose just tuggin' the start cord will get you dried out? Ken

You are correct! The only "safety device" we had was a wooden peg fit into a hole in the boogie board near the motor and was attached to a stretched piece of surgical rubber tubing. A very thin string was attached to the rider's ankle and to the peg. Another string was tied between the spark plug wire and the peg. Rider falls off, peg pulls out, rubber tube contracts pulling the spark plug wire off! I know now that there are better ways, but hey, we were young and foolish then and wanted to impress the girls one afternoon! We actually built this thing in about two hours and then proceeded to give said girls the best laugh of the season!

Steve

One of my small projects when I was a Junior Engineer was a frequency independent 240/480 phase rotation sensor. My boss laughed at me when he say me with one hand in my back pocket while testing it.

Who were these actor/writer secret agents?

Where? Many are two wire sets. The three wire powered sets are DC at the tip from the base.

So where do the AC powered, two wire sets get grounded... safely?

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and another arsewipe troll

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a friend tried to check a bridge rectifire 30amp with a cro, when pluged into mains, did not know the negitive probe was grounded to earth, bits of bridge all over the place and burnt hair on arms.

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not good.

ive been replacing some lights myself to fluros at home, ive got 2 more rooms to do.

did you fix the neutral problem?

The only one I'm personally familiar with was a screenwriter. He did, under an assumed name, a number of popular films, including The Dirty Dozen. He was a dedicated commie and pretty nasty in his personal life, as commies tend to be. You know, loving the people in theory but not in practice.

More importantly, the Manhattan Project had two independent inside spy operations, which let the russkies get The Bomb a lot sooner than if they'd done it themselves. The US offered them a nuclear-free world, and Free Skies mutual flyover; they wanted none of it.

After the USSR fell, but before Putin/KBG regained control, a huge amount of sovier archive stuff was revealed. Yes, the US was indeed full of Soviet spies, and they weren't very nice.

John

I can still take a 10.00 and 20 truck inner tube and tape the stem with duct tape, fill it oversized with air and get inside and roll down the street... for a mile or so.

Bog. Rebuilt clocks until i could rebuild one, make it work backwards and kept good time,before 10 yo.

Went crazy playing with nitrates and fireworks and rockets.

Played with my dad's carbon arc beam (actually had people following it the house) about 4 kW with a 24 inch reflector. Carbon rods from batteries.

Built more electronic stuff than i can count, had the best electronic experiment kit (owned by a kid) for miles around in San Jose.

It was great, engineers and other professionals for local parents and neighbors, top fight machinists with lathes and mills on the block, what's not to love.

At 10 yo i already knew not to heat that combination in a test tube.

Motorcycles are a tradeoff, traveling efficacy versus risk. Been riding daily for about 30 years now.