The Daring Dufas wrote in
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On 3/30/2011 10:13 AM, Red Green wrote:
z wrote in
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:18:30 -0500, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 3/29/2011 2:57 AM, wrote:
If you've ever watched the Jerry Springer show, you've seen that
huge fan in his studio. I've noticed that the fan turns really
slow, but I've always waited to see it speeded up, and watch one
of those losers on his show get thrown into the fan. Would this
fan decapitate and mangle the body of a person tossed into it? At
what speed would it need to run? How large would the motor need
to be in HP?

The Springer Show really needs something new. This would be the
exact thing it needs to bring back the ratings. After all, those
worthless trailer trash drug addicted losers are a dime a dozen,
so why not mangle one of them live on the show to improve the
ratings. Or for that matter, why not toss Jerry himself into the
fan.... No one would miss him or his show!!!!

[Of course they'd have to film the fan from the outside of the
building too, to see all the blood and guts spurting out]

Dr. Fill


Only in the movies will a standard ceiling fan lop your head off
quicker than an Islamic terrorist. :-)

The mother of all fans:

http://www.bigassfans.com/commercial

Hey, those are some...big ass fans!

Now lets see. If I got a washing machine motor, some surplus
helicopter blades, tie-wraps, duct tape....hmmm.

When I was a kid on the farm, I built a play helicopter. Of course it
didn't fly but it made that whistling sound you hear when one is at
idle. I used a washing machine motor and a 12 foot 1x2 for the main
blade and 2 foot 1x2 and an old car heater blower motor for the tail
rotor. Me and my little brothers would play Whirlybird like the TV
series of the time. :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlybirds

TDD


No need for the link. Recall it well.

You should have built it on an embankment or something. More realistic
if you launched it with them in it. That's what little brothers are for.
Then you could play "Emergency!".