Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
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« Reply #25 on: December 20, 2011, 11:49:28 pm » |
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Oh Yes! It's always good to have a knob on at least one end of a raygun...  Now why did that make me think immediately of Lady Clankington?....  SS Because everything makes you think of Lady Clankington? |
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celephicus
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Mensura ergo sum (I measure, therefore I am)
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« Reply #26 on: December 21, 2011, 03:11:29 am » |
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...Flanged discs on a common shaft are also practically non-existent as engineering components in the Real World*, so they have a certain novelty value, and you have to make them yourself out of various sizes of washers...
Au Contraire.... in the circles of Those Who Bother The Aether Quite Rapidly they are quite common- eg:- http://andycowley.com/valves/power/rf/2C39A/2C39A-03.jpgas an example. I am sure there are more impressive devices out there  Hurrah indeed for flanged disks! HP That is indeed a scary looking device! I would hate to be looking down the hot end of one of those, especially when energised with the Working Electric Fluid Potential of 750V or so! Actually a colleague suggested cream seperators as consisting of stacked conical disks, as indeed they do from this illustration:  I had a holiday job in a dairy and I must have blanked out the hours spent cleaning the multitudinous parts of the cream seperator. So there is another example of flanged disks. |
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von Corax
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Leverkusen Institute of Paleocybernetics
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« Reply #27 on: December 22, 2011, 09:03:05 am » |
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...Flanged discs on a common shaft are also practically non-existent as engineering components in the Real World*, so they have a certain novelty value, and you have to make them yourself out of various sizes of washers...
Au Contraire.... in the circles of Those Who Bother The Aether Quite Rapidly they are quite common- eg:- http://andycowley.com/valves/power/rf/2C39A/2C39A-03.jpgas an example. I am sure there are more impressive devices out there Hurrah indeed for flanged disks! HP That is indeed a scary looking device! I would hate to be looking down the hot end of one of those, especially when energised with the Working Electric Fluid Potential of 750V or so! Actually a colleague suggested cream seperators as consisting of stacked conical disks, as indeed they do from this illustration: I had a holiday job in a dairy and I must have blanked out the hours spent cleaning the multitudinous parts of the cream seperator. So there is another example of flanged disks. Likewise (and perhaps more relevant) the "stacked-disc" style of high-voltage insulator, such as this one: My understanding is that high voltages arc more readily along a surface than through free air, so the stacked-disc design serves to increase the length of that surface relative to the free-air distance. |
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By the Beans of Life do my thoughts acquire speed
My hands acquire a shaking
The shaking becomes a warning
By the power of caffeine do I set my mind in motion
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Dr cornelius quack
Rogue Ætherlord
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Arrant Carney. Phmebian Cultural Attache.
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« Reply #28 on: December 24, 2011, 12:22:35 am » |
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Stacked discs, eh?  Just for an idea of scale, that's a 3/16" copper rivet down the centre. |
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Such are the feeble bases on which many a public character rests.
Construction of illegal outdoor Privvys on common land a speciality. Our customers always come back.
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Dr cornelius quack
Rogue Ætherlord
United Kingdom
Arrant Carney. Phmebian Cultural Attache.
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« Reply #29 on: December 25, 2011, 01:53:26 pm » |
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Here's the other end of the latest Astrogator, with a bit of decorative sheet metalwork and a nice dished plate set into the breach. Looks like just the place to locate some sort of gauge, doesn't it?  |
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« Reply #30 on: December 30, 2011, 08:31:57 am » |
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Bit late back I know, but I've always liked the flaring sprung bits in a dalek gun (original series, not the new version)....
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« Reply #31 on: December 30, 2011, 11:05:51 am » |
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Oh Yes! It's always good to have a knob on at least one end of a raygun... Now why did that make me think immediately of Lady Clankington?.... SS A steampunk's gun has a knob on the end It never will buckle, it never will bend He cherishes it, and he calls it his friend, and he frequently takes it in hand. A steampunk's gun is the source of his power. He checks up on it every hour on the hour And he's never surprised when it turns to a flower -- The fairest throughout all the land. The gun of a steampunk with honour is crowned. Without it a steampunk will rarely be found. 'Tis big and it's round and weighs three to the pound And without it he's truly unmanned. |
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« Reply #32 on: December 30, 2011, 03:43:07 pm » |
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And now the chorus- "Ohhh...! *everybody!*..." tbc.. HP |
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« Reply #33 on: December 31, 2011, 01:54:14 pm » |
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The room breaks into a rousing chorus of "A Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered at All."
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von Corax
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Canada
Leverkusen Institute of Paleocybernetics
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« Reply #34 on: January 01, 2012, 08:57:47 am » |
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Is that anything like "How do porcupines make love?"
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« Reply #35 on: January 01, 2012, 01:56:11 pm » |
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Carefully now! |
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. (Cecil Beaton)
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Dr cornelius quack
Rogue Ætherlord
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Arrant Carney. Phmebian Cultural Attache.
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« Reply #36 on: January 24, 2012, 05:55:44 pm » |
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And, after that saucy musical interlewd.  There is a specialist Bead shop in Afflecks that sells all sorts of useful stuff for jiggering together various pointy ends. The conical thingys are particularly promising for all kinds of uses, and come in Brass or Copper. |
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« Reply #39 on: January 24, 2012, 08:59:49 pm » |
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Douglas Adams on the philosophy of weapons design:
The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. “ Make it evil”,he’d been told. “ Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sorts of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace. It is a gun for going out and making people miserable with.”
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Polphemus Pomfret
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« Reply #40 on: January 24, 2012, 11:45:10 pm » |
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Douglas Adams on the philosophy of weapons design:
The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. “ Make it evil”,he’d been told. “ Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sorts of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace. It is a gun for going out and making people miserable with.”
in other words, a fof gun. |
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Mr. Hatchett
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« Reply #41 on: January 25, 2012, 03:49:58 pm » |
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Here's the other end of the latest Astrogator, with a bit of decorative sheet metalwork and a nice dished plate set into the breach. Looks like just the place to locate some sort of gauge, doesn't it? What, just one? I'm seeing a semicircular one up top and some switches underneath, sort of a dashboard in miniature. That way when you're not menacing people with it, you can set it into some kind of base and the little robots can operate it like a cannon. |
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When Friday comes, we'll all call rats fish.
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Dr cornelius quack
Rogue Ætherlord
United Kingdom
Arrant Carney. Phmebian Cultural Attache.
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« Reply #42 on: June 05, 2012, 07:01:44 pm » |
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Sometimes a damp Bank Holiday proves to be not entirely a 'dead loss'. A twenty minute rummage through one of me Dad's old junk boxes provided this little lot.  Pay Dirt!!! The right hand bowl is full of assorted pipe fittings, door stays, hinges and plain bearing bushes. All very lovely!! But, the left hand box is more immediately useful, being a load of serrated brass discs and cover plugs from 'Grinnell' type fire sprinkler heads. They just shout 'Pointy End' don't they?? Also in the shot, top left, are a few copper bellows that would be fitted to water systems to activate pressure switches, a gas key and a sight glass. Thanks, Dad!! |
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Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
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« Reply #43 on: June 05, 2012, 08:19:36 pm » |
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Excellent stuff there, Sir!
My dad was an accountant, so all I keep finding is two or three inch pencil stubs in cupboards and the garage- still useful, mind you...
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Dr cornelius quack
Rogue Ætherlord
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Arrant Carney. Phmebian Cultural Attache.
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« Reply #44 on: June 05, 2012, 08:51:44 pm » |
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Well, pencils have their 'pointy ends' too.
It's a little known fact that those three inch long pencils are actually a sub-species which have evolved to take advantage of a niche habitat behind the ears of carpenters and joiners.
A form of 'Convergent Evolution' can be seen in the ball point pens which live behind the ears of blokes in Bookmakers and, rather inexplicably, on the floor in Argos.
On an unrelated note.
Has anyone ever completely 'used up' a pencil?
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Herr Döktor
Gadgeteer, Contraptionist, and Inventor, FVSS
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« Reply #45 on: June 05, 2012, 09:00:52 pm » |
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Only as kindling.
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Sir Henry
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« Reply #46 on: June 05, 2012, 10:13:40 pm » |
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On an unrelated note.
Has anyone ever completely 'used up' a pencil?
In the pre-computer days I regularly had to give up on Caran D'Aches that were less than half an inch long. Always in the middle of a drawing too.  |
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« Reply #47 on: June 07, 2012, 06:07:27 am » |
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On an unrelated note.
Has anyone ever completely 'used up' a pencil?
yes in first grade i considered it my lucky pencil, the last time i sharpened it i actually took off some of the metal ferrule |
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Dr cornelius quack
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« Reply #48 on: June 11, 2012, 07:41:43 am » |
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More progress.  |
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Mercury Wells
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« Reply #49 on: June 11, 2012, 09:08:02 am » |
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Is that a prototype light sabre(tm) anti-hysteria device, with inter-changerable attachments?
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