On 01/04/2014 10:01 AM, chuck richards wrote: > Thanks for posting that John! I have checked their > site a few times before, and it looks like they've > now added many more items.
You're welcome. > > By the way, have you put any more of the 4-wheeled > boom boxes out of commission lately? Always interested > to hear more about documented kills. Unfortunately, no. For those just now tuning in, what Chuck is referring to is an EMP weapon I built using 4 microwave oven magnetrons, a waveguide and feed horn and a high voltage capacitor discharge pulsed power supply. It was designed to kill the stereo in a car that drove past my restaurant every day with the boom boom stereo turned up loud enough that it vibrated stuff off the shelves in the dining room. It was very effective. One shot, one kill. I pressed the button from my roof-mounted perch where I could aim the horn down through his passenger side window and... Nothing. Silence. Peace. Stalled engine. The engine restarted but the stereo was down for the count. Anyway, between the time I moved up here to Tellico and the time I started moving my shop and lab, my health deteriorated to the point that I was about 6 months into the move, about half done when scrappers broke into the building and stole everything. My neon shop, the electronics lab, even the copper wiring in the walls. All gone. I've built a new (much smaller) lab in a spare bedroom where I design induction heaters (http://www.fluxeon.com). I'm saving my money to put a prefab building on my adjacent lot and that will be for the neon and glass lab. Maybe about next fall. I had a friend donate almost a complete neon shop to the effort so the equipment is packed in boxes in the basement, awaiting the new building. The health problem turned out to be a collapsed lung and paralyzed diaphragm caused by a bulging disk at C5. That's where the nerves that drive the left diaphragm muscle exit the spine. I'm strapped to an oxygen concentrator but other than that, OK. Speaking of oxygen concentrators, I had 5 of them in my neon shop. 4 got stolen. I used them to enrich the air going to my gas/air fires. That made the fires hot enough to work Pyrex without having to have a pure oxygen source. Since they sell used for $2-300 and typically make 5 liters per minute of 90% oxygen, that's a very cheap method of hotting up your glassworking fires. John -- John DeArmond Tellico Plains, Occupied TN http://www.fluxeon.com <-- THE source for induction heaters http://www.neon-john.com <-- email from here http://www.johndearmond.com <-- Best damned Blog on the net PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net: BCB68D77 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/52C83660.3050302%40neon-john.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
