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Originally Posted by DNSB
When I was about that age, I also made an arc lamp. My father severely lectured me on safety, sloppy construction and general idiocy. There were are times when I look back and wonder how I made it into and through my teens without severe injury.
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Jacobs ladders from old Neon Sign or Oil burner transformers.
Cooking Hot Dogs using 2 nails (on either end) and a suicide cord (Power cord with alligator clips on the other end)
Ah! The good old days when Science class instructors talked or demonstrated about these things.
We survived, because we learned what not to do AND WHY! Now days it is always someone else's fault if you manage to injure yourself.
