On Friday 16 April 2004 23:50, ben franchuk wrote:
> Joe R. wrote:
> > My collecting:
> >
> > 1. Old computers
> > 2. Old test equipment to fix #1
> > 3. Old electronics parts to fix #1 and 2
> > 4. Old cars to look for #1, 2 and 3.
> > 5. Old truck to haul #1, 2 and 3.
> > 6. Old metal working equipment to make parts for #1 through 5.
> > 7. Old house to store #1 through 6.
> > 8. Old guns to protect #1 through 7.
> > 9. Old missiles to protect #7.
> > 10 Old money to pay for all of the above!
> >
> > Did I miss anything?
> >
> > Joe :-)
>
> 11 Old Atomic power plant to power said computers.
While I'd personally love the idea, it seems the NRC (and probably some
people form other 3-letter government orgs) don't like people posessing
large amounts of radioactive materials; especially things like Pu-239
or U-235... And I don't think I'd want to maintain a large scale
atomic power plant, either. It'd be interesting, however, to set up a
small scale breeder reactor, like the PUR-1 that Purdue has, or maybe
even something that would fit on a table top (although it's hard to go
critical with that little of mass).
Also, don't forget you'd have to cool the machines and power plant
(unless you live in Alaska.. or northern Canada :).
Of course, the gov't (and neighbors) probably also would have something
to say about the x-ray equipment I've collected. I just wish I had the
time to set up a nice lead-shielded box for making x-ray photos of
stuff. I've got basically everything I need, I just need to form the
box out of clumps of lead. What I need is a blast furnace to melt the
lead; my stove sorta works, but not quite well enough.
So I guess my "other" collections would include:
1) Video editing stuff
2) Electronic test equipment
3) Anything with tubes in it that I can get cheaply...which isn't too
difficult around Purdue
4) "Nuclear" equipment, like geiger counters, scalers, x-ray tubes &
power supplies (some of this overlaps with #3)
5) High-voltage gear, like power supplies (this overlaps with #3 and #4)
At some point, I want to combine 4 and 5, and make a small linear
accelerator, but I don't have any ideas on what to do for it (and would
need somewhere to put it...underground would probably be a Good Idea
(TM)).
Pat
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Received on Sat Apr 17 2004 - 00:31:15 BST