ARWadsworth wrote:
Sod Teddy Bears. This article reminded me of my first childhood DIY
experiments

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8154757.stm


I had several DIY childhood experiences and the bigger the good hiding from
my parents the more damage I must have caused.

The most memorable experiment was when my brother and I found our Dad's
hammer on the landing and we smashed the bathroom sink into bits to see how
long it would take to smash the sink into bits.

So what DIY experiments did you perform as a child? I know that one regular
poster deliberately electrocuted his sister.

Adam


Spent quite a while playing with a blowtorch and lead piping (from an
old toilet). Much fun but have always wondered if I absorbed rather a
lot of lead.

Played with a doorbell, model railway transformer and various other bits
- gave quite a powerful pulse-like shock as you twanged the hammer spring.

Melted iron in the fireplace - coal plus a cylinder vacuum cleaner. Very
impressive. Especially the burns on the carpet from the sparks. The iron
did melt and filled a hole in the bottom of the fireplace.

Tried to move soil by pointing a hosepipe at it and letting the water
jet do the job. Yes - it moved the soil. But after doing that for a
couple of hours, it set like concrete when the sun baked it over the
next weeks.

Replaced a fuse (this was at my boarding school) - firstly with a couple
of strands of fuse wire. Later with around a dozen - probably
effectively 60 amps. Still managed to blow it by putting magnesium
ribbon across sockets and switching on.

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Rod

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