Old Filter Caps

[joe]

Very interesting story, but sounds smelly,messey and noisey!!It was good
CLEAN fun at Hayden Union High School (HUHS) about 1953-1954. A good
friend of mine (a WN0) devised a fuse blower i.e. an a.c. plug with wire
across the two terminals, shove it into a.c. socket and those round glass
screw in fuses would pop. Not sure what his final count was, but one day the
Physics teacher came up to us and said I know you guys are doing it, but
I cant catch you.  Well everything went back to normal suddenly. And that
teacher still alive and well today.....

73 de Joe w0tut
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at YAHOO.COM>
To: <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: Old Filter Caps


> When I was in high school, a couple of the "problem
> children" students would take the electrolytics from
> old TV sets that had the two insulated leads from the
> same end and plug them into an AC outlet.  It took
> about 30 seconds to a minute on average, and the
> capacitor would explode giving off a bad smell and
> lots of smoke and debris.  They would do this in
> school bathrooms, classrooms, etc.  We had a pretty
> good idea as to just who was doing this, but they
> never got caught.  However, over a couple of years I
> suspect that they set off at least 50 capacitors
> (about one per week).
>
> Glen, K9STH
>
>
> --- Neil Morrison <neilsmorr at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> It's not too corrosive, but if you've ever seen one
> explode, DAMN, it's messy!
>
>
> =====
> Glen, K9STH
>
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