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I have worked on a lot of projects in the past month. My friend and I built a motorized scooter that went about 15mph. It ran off of a weed eater motor. We also built a small valveless pulse jet engine. We havent gotten it to run yet, although it does make some pretty impressive bangs, pops, explosions, and fireballs. I finially got the wire for my tesla coil! I wound my coil, it just has to be sprayed with polyurethane. The capacitor bank needs finished too. You can look at all of these projects under my projects menu. I hope to get my gokart running again soon. I know I haven't written in a while...but nothing cool happened. nothin to talk about. But now I have sumthin cool to tell you. Prettt soon I'll have enough sobe bottles for my tesla coil that I'll prob end up finishing in the summer. We all owe a special thanks to Cameron, Chris, Brock, and Me for the bottles. lol. In the end I should have over 80 friggin bottles!!! And another thanks to Brock and Ollies! Brock for telling me about the cases of 12 Sobes for $4 at ollies and one for ollies for sellin em so frikkin cheap. Now the really time consuming part..Cleaning them out and filling them with highly concentrated saltwater and wrapping them really neatly with aluminum foil and then getting yelled at from my mom from using all of the aluminum foil! All I need now is the wire for my secondary coil, which I can get any weekday I can go to SWAM ELECTRIC. Anyway I finially beat like all of the missions up to mission 17 in Delta Force: Black Hawk Down. Mission 10 had me stumped so I didn't play it for like a month. Then i started playing it again and I managed to get to mission 17. Well that's all Something happpened to me today that could have surely killed me instantly. I was testing my capacitors that I made for my tesla coil. I had 7 of them hooked up in paralell, and connected to my 15kv NST (neon sign transformer). I was doing this on my shed front porch. I was getting arcs about 2 inches. I changed my arc distance a little bit further and then I turned my back to walk over to the switch to turn it on. When my back was turned one wire from the NST had swung over and was touching the doorframe of my shed. I had my arm against the doorframe as I turned the switch on. I felt this incredible pain in my right arm. I didn't realize what it was. It was arcing from the doorframe to my right elbow through my arm and out of my thumb to the grounded switch plate. I couldn't control my arm at all to turn the switch off. Somehow I managed to turn the switch off. My elbow had a minor electrical burn about the size of a quarter but it wasn't really visible. After being shocked I could still feel the path the electricity had taken through my arm. The amperage must have damaged my nerves cause I had no feeling in my thumb for over an hour. That's probably the worst experience I have had. If my other hand would have touched anything grounded the electricity would have taken a path right past my heart and I would have probably died. I am very thankfull to be alive. Electricity is deffinently not something to mess with. In my case it was an accident that could have been avoided if I had made sure all of my connections were secure. I learned my lesson. Thats all for today. Old Posts |
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My ChatterBoX! - moved it here cause it slowed down the loading of my page! Name: Curtis McKain Born: 9/28/88 Interests: Working on things, building things out of metal and wood or anything i can get my hands on, computers, music (Rap, Rock, Hard Rock, R & B, Metal), friends, girls, summer, riding gokart, writing malicious programs. hehe, anything that is dangerous, -high voltage-, big sparks, welding, and by the way i'm a pyromaniac. About: This website has information on the projects that I build, information about me, a guestbook and a chatterbox for ppl to type crap in, pictures of me flatlanding on my bike, pictures of my friends, family and some funny pictures, 130 free buddy icons for your use, and the weather. |
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