I have several dozen old AOL CD's that I have kept just because I
figured someday I would find a good use for them. Well today I did find
ONE good way to use them. I needed a new filter for my old 5HP Sears
Shopvac. When I put it back together I couldn't find the old Filter
disc. I am afraid I accidentally left it on the old filter and it was
thrown in the trash ( trashday was yesterday). I got out my compass to
measure the size of the circle I would need so I could make a new disc
on my scroll saw and drill press. I just happened to have a music CD
laying on top of the computer and VIOLA the CD was almost exactly the
size I needed and the hole in the middle was the right size also. I put
an old AOL CD in place and I have been using the shop vac all morning
and it works great. Now if I can just find a few other things the old
CD's are good for. . . .
Dennis
In article <[email protected]>, Odinn <[email protected]> wrote:
>Have you tried the grape plasma arc yet?
>http://c3po.barnesos.net/homepage/lpl/grapeplasma/
>
>Nice show, especially if you have the lights off in the house.
Try a marshmallow -- it'll swell up almost as large as a tennis ball. If you
have a microwave with variable power levels, the marshmallow will expand and
shrink, expand and shrink as the magnetron cycles on and off.
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:58:46 -0500, Odinn <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 1/1/2006 1:32 PM Odinn mumbled something about the following:
>> On 1/1/2006 11:26 AM Ralph E Lindberg mumbled something about the
>> following:
>>> In article <[email protected]>,
>>> Odinn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Not at all, doesn't harm it one bit.
>>>
>>> Sigh... do you know what a Standing Wave Ratio (SWR)is? Do you know
>>> what a bad SWR means to a tranmission tube? Have you read the manual
>>> about putting metal in the microwave? Do you know that it's the metal
>>> in the CD that causes this reaction?
>>>
>>> Why do I think the answer to the above questions are no
>>>
>>
>> Funny how one of my microwaves has a metal rack in it, and it doesn't
>> say to remove it to use the microwave. Do try again.
>>
>
>I'll give you a hint though. The warning isn't because of damage to the
>magnatron.
I have an old huge Panasonic convection microwave that is still my #1 kitchen
appliance. Because it is also convection this thing has accidentally microwaved
tons of metal. I even miked a 10 stack of CDs at once, now that was a show.<g>
It works as well now as it did new nearly 20 years ago.
On 12/30/2005 12:51 PM TwoGuns mumbled something about the following:
> I have several dozen old AOL CD's that I have kept just because I
> figured someday I would find a good use for them. Well today I did find
> ONE good way to use them. I needed a new filter for my old 5HP Sears
> Shopvac. When I put it back together I couldn't find the old Filter
> disc. I am afraid I accidentally left it on the old filter and it was
> thrown in the trash ( trashday was yesterday). I got out my compass to
> measure the size of the circle I would need so I could make a new disc
> on my scroll saw and drill press. I just happened to have a music CD
> laying on top of the computer and VIOLA the CD was almost exactly the
> size I needed and the hole in the middle was the right size also. I put
> an old AOL CD in place and I have been using the shop vac all morning
> and it works great. Now if I can just find a few other things the old
> CD's are good for. . . .
> Dennis
>
5 seconds in the microwave and use them as coffee coasters.
--
Odinn - more than my share of AOHell coffee coasters
On 12/31/2005 10:58 AM Ralph E Lindberg mumbled something about the
following:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Joe Barta <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Puff Griffis wrote:
>>
>>> I hang them from strings in my vegetable garden to keep the birds
>>> out. Puff
>>
>> And I do the old microwave thing from time to time when I don't have
>> anything particularly useful to do at the moment. AOL et al keep me in
>> regular and cheap entertainment.
>
> That's rather hard on the microwave though
>
Not at all, doesn't harm it one bit.
--
Odinn - hundreds of CD's microwaved in my $49 microwave with no ill effect.
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 19:55:02 GMT, Joe Barta <[email protected]> wrote:
> wrote:
>
>> I've been pirating junk from the net for ten years. I burn 3-4
>> DVDs a day now. I collect it like stamps.
>> I have at least 6000 CD/DVDs most are junk now.
>> That would be a stack about 40 feet high.
>
>Most of what you have burned is "junk now" yet you still burn "3-4
>DVDs a day"? I mean, we all collect and accumulate bits of crap we
>find on the internet, but if we figure 4.7 Gb per disc, that's like 15
>GIGAbytes of stuff per day!
I do about 350 gigs a month.
>You are trying to set a record? What on
>earth could you be collecting at that rate?
Movies, games, software, a few TV shows, especially TV not available here like
British stuff and Canadian Stuff, MP3s, just about anything.
I have working computers going back 27 years and collect software for all of
them. Some I buy on ebay like carts for my TI994A and Com64. I have macs and
compatibles back to 1982.
Right at this moment I'm downloading KingKong, The Matador, Walk the Line,
Corner Gas and assorted softwares and books on CD and as text files.
I'm mostly wheelchair bound these days and live 60 miles dangerous winter miles
from a theater.
Before I found this hobby to go along with the Woodworking I can do I used to
sit in a bar a wallow in self pity.
This is cheaper.<g>
I hang them from strings in my vegetable garden to keep the birds out.
Puff
"TwoGuns" <[email protected]> wrote in message =
news:[email protected]...
> I have several dozen old AOL CD's that I have kept just because I
> figured someday I would find a good use for them. Well today I did =
find
> ONE good way to use them. I needed a new filter for my old 5HP Sears
> Shopvac. When I put it back together I couldn't find the old Filter
> disc. I am afraid I accidentally left it on the old filter and it was
> thrown in the trash ( trashday was yesterday). I got out my compass to
> measure the size of the circle I would need so I could make a new disc
> on my scroll saw and drill press. I just happened to have a music CD
> laying on top of the computer and VIOLA the CD was almost exactly the
> size I needed and the hole in the middle was the right size also. I =
put
> an old AOL CD in place and I have been using the shop vac all morning
> and it works great. Now if I can just find a few other things the old
> CD's are good for. . . .
> Dennis
>
On 1/1/2006 1:32 PM Odinn mumbled something about the following:
> On 1/1/2006 11:26 AM Ralph E Lindberg mumbled something about the
> following:
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> Odinn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Not at all, doesn't harm it one bit.
>>
>> Sigh... do you know what a Standing Wave Ratio (SWR)is? Do you know
>> what a bad SWR means to a tranmission tube? Have you read the manual
>> about putting metal in the microwave? Do you know that it's the metal
>> in the CD that causes this reaction?
>>
>> Why do I think the answer to the above questions are no
>>
>
> Funny how one of my microwaves has a metal rack in it, and it doesn't
> say to remove it to use the microwave. Do try again.
>
I'll give you a hint though. The warning isn't because of damage to the
magnatron.
--
Odinn - another hint is at http://amasci.com/weird/microwave/voltage3.html
Warren Weber wrote:
> "TwoGuns" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>>I have several dozen old AOL CD's that I have kept just because I
>>figured someday I would find a good use for them. Well today I did find
>>ONE good way to use them. I needed a new filter for my old 5HP Sears
>>Shopvac. When I put it back together I couldn't find the old Filter
>>disc. I am afraid I accidentally left it on the old filter and it was
>>thrown in the trash ( trashday was yesterday). I got out my compass to
>>measure the size of the circle I would need so I could make a new disc
>>on my scroll saw and drill press. I just happened to have a music CD
>>laying on top of the computer and VIOLA the CD was almost exactly the
>>size I needed and the hole in the middle was the right size also. I put
>>an old AOL CD in place and I have been using the shop vac all morning
>>and it works great. Now if I can just find a few other things the old
>>CD's are good for. . . .
>>Dennis
>>
>
> I keep my table saw blades on a wood dowel and space them with CD's to keep
> teeth from touching. Also can use as spacers with a dado blade. Warren
>
>
Damn, why didn't I think of that. I've been using
three thin wood strips between blades (blades
laid horizontal on an upright dowel) in a drawer.
Think I'll do some replacing.
"TwoGuns" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I have several dozen old AOL CD's that I have kept just because I
> figured someday I would find a good use for them. Well today I did find
> ONE good way to use them. I needed a new filter for my old 5HP Sears
> Shopvac. When I put it back together I couldn't find the old Filter
> disc. I am afraid I accidentally left it on the old filter and it was
> thrown in the trash ( trashday was yesterday). I got out my compass to
> measure the size of the circle I would need so I could make a new disc
> on my scroll saw and drill press. I just happened to have a music CD
> laying on top of the computer and VIOLA the CD was almost exactly the
> size I needed and the hole in the middle was the right size also. I put
> an old AOL CD in place and I have been using the shop vac all morning
> and it works great. Now if I can just find a few other things the old
> CD's are good for. . . .
> Dennis
>
I keep my table saw blades on a wood dowel and space them with CD's to keep
teeth from touching. Also can use as spacers with a dado blade. Warren
Ralph E Lindberg wrote:
>> And I do the old microwave thing from time to time when I don't
>> have anything particularly useful to do at the moment. AOL et al
>> keep me in regular and cheap entertainment.
>
> That's rather hard on the microwave though
>
Thanks for the warning. I mean, ever since I found hair growing on my
palms I learned to take such cautions seriously.
Seriously though, I suppose all that snap crackle pop *might* come at
some expense. But why and how is it hard on a microwave?
Joe Barta
wrote:
> I've been pirating junk from the net for ten years. I burn 3-4
> DVDs a day now. I collect it like stamps.
> I have at least 6000 CD/DVDs most are junk now.
> That would be a stack about 40 feet high.
Most of what you have burned is "junk now" yet you still burn "3-4
DVDs a day"? I mean, we all collect and accumulate bits of crap we
find on the internet, but if we figure 4.7 Gb per disc, that's like 15
GIGAbytes of stuff per day! You are trying to set a record? What on
earth could you be collecting at that rate?
On 1/1/2006 11:26 AM Ralph E Lindberg mumbled something about the following:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Odinn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> Not at all, doesn't harm it one bit.
>
> Sigh... do you know what a Standing Wave Ratio (SWR)is? Do you know what
> a bad SWR means to a tranmission tube? Have you read the manual about
> putting metal in the microwave? Do you know that it's the metal in the
> CD that causes this reaction?
>
> Why do I think the answer to the above questions are no
>
Funny how one of my microwaves has a metal rack in it, and it doesn't
say to remove it to use the microwave. Do try again.
--
Odinn
<[email protected]> wrote in message
> I use them for tons of other stuff.
> You can cut them and heat bend them into fan shapes that spin like crazy
in the
> wind. Scares away critters from the garden.
I tried using them for targets once, but they're too easy ... all my shots
were apparently bull's-eye's.
--
www.e-woodshop.net
Last update: 12/13/05
On 30 Dec 2005 09:51:55 -0800, "TwoGuns" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>I have several dozen old AOL CD's
They make a great survival/signalling mirror. I don't go too far into
the wilderness without a couple packed away.
Barry Lennox
On 30 Dec 2005 09:51:55 -0800, "TwoGuns" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I have several dozen old AOL CD's that I have kept just because I
>figured someday I would find a good use for them. Well today I did find
>ONE good way to use them. I needed a new filter for my old 5HP Sears
>Shopvac. When I put it back together I couldn't find the old Filter
>disc. I am afraid I accidentally left it on the old filter and it was
>thrown in the trash ( trashday was yesterday). I got out my compass to
>measure the size of the circle I would need so I could make a new disc
>on my scroll saw and drill press. I just happened to have a music CD
>laying on top of the computer and VIOLA the CD was almost exactly the
>size I needed and the hole in the middle was the right size also. I put
>an old AOL CD in place and I have been using the shop vac all morning
>and it works great. Now if I can just find a few other things the old
>CD's are good for. . . .
>Dennis
If you're really bored and looking for kid's toys to make:
http://www.pennstateind.com/store/pkcdtop.html
mac
Please remove splinters before emailing
On 1/1/2006 2:58 PM [email protected] mumbled something about the following:
> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:58:46 -0500, Odinn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 1/1/2006 1:32 PM Odinn mumbled something about the following:
>>> On 1/1/2006 11:26 AM Ralph E Lindberg mumbled something about the
>>> following:
>>>> In article <[email protected]>,
>>>> Odinn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Not at all, doesn't harm it one bit.
>>>> Sigh... do you know what a Standing Wave Ratio (SWR)is? Do you know
>>>> what a bad SWR means to a tranmission tube? Have you read the manual
>>>> about putting metal in the microwave? Do you know that it's the metal
>>>> in the CD that causes this reaction?
>>>>
>>>> Why do I think the answer to the above questions are no
>>>>
>>> Funny how one of my microwaves has a metal rack in it, and it doesn't
>>> say to remove it to use the microwave. Do try again.
>>>
>> I'll give you a hint though. The warning isn't because of damage to the
>> magnatron.
>
> I have an old huge Panasonic convection microwave that is still my #1 kitchen
> appliance. Because it is also convection this thing has accidentally microwaved
> tons of metal. I even miked a 10 stack of CDs at once, now that was a show.<g>
> It works as well now as it did new nearly 20 years ago.
>
I haven't tried a stack of 10 at a time, but I'm sure it would be quite
a show.
Have you tried the grape plasma arc yet?
http://c3po.barnesos.net/homepage/lpl/grapeplasma/
Nice show, especially if you have the lights off in the house.
--
Odinn - even boiling water in a microwave is dangerous
The Joe Barta entity posted thusly:
>Ralph E Lindberg wrote:
>
>>> And I do the old microwave thing from time to time when I don't
>>> have anything particularly useful to do at the moment. AOL et al
>>> keep me in regular and cheap entertainment.
>>
>> That's rather hard on the microwave though
>>
>
>Thanks for the warning. I mean, ever since I found hair growing on my
>palms I learned to take such cautions seriously.
>
>Seriously though, I suppose all that snap crackle pop *might* come at
>some expense. But why and how is it hard on a microwave?
Much, if not all, of that noise is caused by arcing inside the
magnetron (the part that actually produces the microwave energy).
In article <[email protected]>,
Joe Barta <[email protected]> wrote:
> Puff Griffis wrote:
>
> > I hang them from strings in my vegetable garden to keep the birds
> > out. Puff
>
>
> And I do the old microwave thing from time to time when I don't have
> anything particularly useful to do at the moment. AOL et al keep me in
> regular and cheap entertainment.
That's rather hard on the microwave though
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In article <[email protected]>,
Odinn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Not at all, doesn't harm it one bit.
Sigh... do you know what a Standing Wave Ratio (SWR)is? Do you know what
a bad SWR means to a tranmission tube? Have you read the manual about
putting metal in the microwave? Do you know that it's the metal in the
CD that causes this reaction?
Why do I think the answer to the above questions are no
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On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:13:01 -0500, Gordon Airporte <[email protected]> wrote:
>Somewhere online I saw a very cool (and apparently very heavy) lamp made
>from a ~12" stack of these with a cold cathode light tube through the
>middle. The light shines out through the edges for a nice diffuse effect.
Cool.
I've been pirating junk from the net for ten years. I burn 3-4 DVDs a day now.
I collect it like stamps.
I have at least 6000 CD/DVDs most are junk now.
That would be a stack about 40 feet high.
I wonder if I made a light post for my front step how long it would shine
exposed to the weather. Could I drill out the center and put in a long
flourecent light?
I'm thinking of making a lit post and a mailbox on top of that completely out of
CDs.
I use them for tons of other stuff.
You can cut them and heat bend them into fan shapes that spin like crazy in the
wind. Scares away critters from the garden.