My thread on how to cook hot dogs using 120 VAC was very short lived.
My serious issue is that what one moderator sees as fine the next guy can't close the thread fast enough. I mean really, how many things have gone to trial over someone reading an Internet article? While I agree moderation is necessary in any forum and whoever owns the sand box can set their own rules it helps when moderation is all on the same channel and for moderation to occasionally admit they are wrong on something.
Incidentally I have cooked single hot dogs, one at a time, using 120 VAC. I like stainless nails and never use galvanized nails as they leave a bitter taste in the ends of the hot dogs.
Ron
My thread on how to cook hot dogs using 120 VAC was very short lived.
My serious issue is that what one moderator sees as fine the next guy can't close the thread fast enough. I mean really, how many things have gone to trial over someone reading an Internet article? While I agree moderation is necessary in any forum and whoever owns the sand box can set their own rules it helps when moderation is all on the same channel and for moderation to occasionally admit they are wrong on something.
Incidentally I have cooked single hot dogs, one at a time, using 120 VAC. I like stainless nails and never use galvanized nails as they leave a bitter taste in the ends of the hot dogs.
Ron
Well I'll be!We did this in the Cub Scouts. It was a project in the guidebook.
Oh I am shocked and amazed! No wait, not really.The guy who started thread on AAC ( in post 1 of this thread) got banned on AAC for asking about the catapult security system article on their own site - but the catapult security system article is still up! What a site!
My link was to one of many stories involving Carl & Jerry which ran in monthly Popular Electronics magazines during the 50s and early 60s.
It was a time when people would read much more and magazines which featured good articles were just plain interesting. Like early radio stories. For example listening to radio when the Lone Ranger stepped on a twig you could hear it snap and when you closed your eyes you could see the story unfold. Really cool stuff.Around that time I used to bum the old copies from the US servicemen I knew that lived around off base.
Particularly the sister Mag. Practical Mechanics.!
Max.
Has Spinnaker been around? Haven't seen him in quite awhile. Hope things in your corner of PA are treating you well.
I also became Acquainted with the US comic characters, Mutt & Jeff, Katzenjammer Kids. Lil Abner etc .It was a time when people would read much more and magazines Like early radio stories.
Ron
Nice to know things are going along well and I see you are still shuttling back and forth from PA to Minnesota .Believe it or not, spinner and I just met for dinner tonight. He Moves on to bigger and better hobbies for the summer - he is usually back when the snow falls. All is well. Also, remember that cold is relative. I was in Minnesota last week and they had morning frost! Just as the frost melted off, the winds picked up. What a cold day.
ETO has a reputation for excellence with help.
Im proud to be associated with ETO.
I like stainless nails and never use galvanized nails as they leave a bitter taste in the ends of the hot dogs.
Where were you when I thought playing with mercury was fun?I don't think I noticed this last sentence in your post, Ron.
Bitter taste from galvanized nails would a short term concern (bad taste), assuming repeated use, the long-term worry would be that older zinc was contaminated with Cadmium. That is why galvanized refrigerator shelves were banned back in the 1970s. People put their food directly on the shelves and, over the decades, develop some industrial disease.
The original story as I read it in 1959.
Never ever take electricity directly out of your outlet without an isolating transformer (1:1). Never. Suggesting or even showing how to do this is totaly BS. Never do it. The hotdog will probably explode and shoot one of the power cords onto your lap. Or you will touch one of the cords without pulling the plug beforehand. Or something else which will lead to injury or death. Simply don’t do it.
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