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[Wilko]

It all started with a recent thread that introduced me to Mr Electro Boom, and as the saying goes, don't try this at home ! Here he is bunging a couple of hundred watts into his HB pencil. Priceless.

 

[Pete999]

Look at these mad Ruskies

 

[Andy78]

Look at these mad Ruskies

Makes photonic induction look relatively consumed by H&S

 

[Deleted member 72666]

......Someone's in for a big leccy bill!

 

[Pete999]

......Someone's in for a big leccy bill!

When I was there in the mid 80s it was free, communism and all that staff

 

[FatAlan]

Old hat mate. I used to set light to pencils and melt sections of the pencil graphite into plastic rulers. Amazing what you can do at school using 12v transformer. Those were days, late 70,s I believe

 

[westward10]

Many moons ago I used to maintain carbon arc spotlights in the film industry marvellous bits of engineering.