Here's a guy waving his hand above the magnetron tube from a microwave oven which has been disassembled and set up on a table:

 

That seems ...dangerous?

 

There exists a very short list of things that I refuse to disassemble. The list is not in physical form, but it exists, nonetheless.

A microwave oven is probably on that list.

 

When I was in my young teens I tried to make a CO2 laser, you could buy tubes on ebay for less than $200, but the power supplies were bank!

I tried to use a CRT flyback, but it wasn't quite enough current to maintain the arc, so I tried two CRT flybacks in series.

**** didn't work, but I managed to shock the ever living **** out of myself. Only time I've been hit hard enough to not remember what it was I was doing seconds earlier.

No more, nope, that was the end of that experiment.

 

In TV, we use a lot of microwave transmitters for long-distance, high-bandwidth communication. All of our remote trucks are equipped with them to beam signals back to the studio, and we use a microwave link to transmit our signal from the studio to the transmitter at the top of Empire.

They're relatively low power (5-10 watts typically) and highly directional, but I still refuse to go anywhere near the front of the waveguide when they're operating.

A microwave oven will output a kilowatt or more, and when the magnetron is removed from its housing, they're pretty omnidirectional.




Nope.






Crazy ******* Ukrainians...

 

I need to get one of these shirts for my next day instructing.

 

 

 

Not enough gears.

 

I can't even.

 

I dislike the photo uploader.





And the re-sizer.

 

What are we seeing here, a guy about to be buried alive?

 

heh, sneaky kitty..

 

Just in case anyone was wondering where you can find a slimy alien ***** that will lay gelatin eggs inside your rectum:

 

Your "recent searches" must be a strange list.

 

That is a satellite being pulled by cart














The boy who inspired christopher robin and winnie

 

 

Bored at work?

Spend an hour watching uranium emit neutrons.


(starts at 2:00)

 

 

Flooding in SC. Yet the lights are still on.