Re: Sam Barros on Junkyard Wars...

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Original poster: "Arpit Thomas" <neko4-at-dodo-dot-com.au> 

Oh my gosh! Its Sam Barros!you are a hero of mine :D Ive started to 
replicate your experiments, starting with the easiest and going to the 
hardest.  I built one of those potato guns, but couldn't find pipe rated to 
a very high pressure, so I made a pneumatic one. It scared my neighbour 
silly, and he called the police. The police came and stole it, coz its a 
prohibited weapon here, bleh. I, against your many warnings, wanted to make 
a substance which would detonate, so I made one of those 'deadly peroxides' 
, methyl ethyl ketone peroxide. I used a salted ice bath and all, and it 
worked very well, I soaked a very teensy square of newspaper in it and hit 
it with a hammer, which was the only detonation where I was nearby. The 
only other detonation I was about 30 meters away, I used an electronic 
ignirtor :)
I also made a device very similar to the disk launcher you made. I couldn;t 
afford enough low ESR capacitors to just use a plain disk, so I used a 
magnet, it shot about one meter in the air.

Oh yes, extreme dremels was great :D
ok, so im probably a teenage wannabe bombmaker in your opinion now, but i 
just wanted to let you know how much i enjoyed your site. People, if you 
haven't seen it, its at
http://www.powerlabs-dot-org/index.html
its got everything from exploding cds to sandboarding. Oh, and you've got 
to check out the vid of HF(aq) in a glass test tube :D

regards,
Arpit Thomas
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On 19/01/2004 at 10:57 PM Tesla list wrote:

 >Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com>
 >
 >Awesome, it will be nice to talk to someone who participated on the show
 >about the problems involved in the build rather than just friends.
 >----- Original Message -----
 >From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 5:11 PM
 >Subject: Re: Sam Barros on Junkyard Wars...
 >
 >
 > > Original poster: "Sam Barros" <sam-at-power-labs-dot-com>
 > >
 > >   Nope, this is not a "what if"; I was actually on the show as one of
 >the
 > > team members :) You can read about the episode I participated in at the
 >TLC
 > > web page:
 >http://tlc.discovery-dot-com/fansites/junkyard/episode/season_13_02.html
 > >   I doubt we'll ever see a Junkyard Wars Tesla Coil: the reason I was
 > > invited into the show was because they needed an electromagnetic weapons
 > > expert and even then they decided it wasn't feasible to make a
 >competition
 > > out of that.
 > >   HOWEVER, fear not, I have some inside scoop that TLC may be comming
 >out
 > > with another JYW-like show that may well do things like Tesla Coils. I
 >am
 > > not authorized to give any details but its something to look foward to
 >in
 > > the near future :) I'll keep you all posted as soon as I can.
 > >   I'll also be on the Daily Planet on Discovery Channel in a couple of
 > > months talking about electromagnetic accelerators and demonstrating my
 >(now
 > > much improved:) Rail Gun on TV...
 > >
 > > Sam Barros (making TV a little bit more fun to watch:)
 > > ME/EE Major at Michigan Tech
 > > http://www.powerlabs-dot-org
 > > "If at first you don't succeed, increase the amperage!"
 > >
 > >
 > > ------------------------------------------------
 > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:47:54 -0700, "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >wrote:
 > >
 > >  > Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com>
 > >  >
 > >  > for a minute I thought we were getting back to the junkyard wars
 >Tesla
 >coil
 > >  > edition again...
 > >  >
 > >  > ----- Original Message -----
 > >  > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > >  > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > >  > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:59 AM
 > >  > Subject: Sam Barros on Junkyard Wars...
 > >  >
 > >  >
 > >  >  > Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com>
 > >  >  >
 > >  >
 > >  >  > From: "Sam Barros" <sam-at-power-labs-dot-com>
 > >  >  > To: terry-at-hot-streamer-dot-com, twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
 > >  >  > Subject: Sam Barros on Junkyard Wars...
 > >  >  > Status:  U
 > >  >  > X-UIDL: 1074533195.13117.2045.mpls-mailin-04.inet.qwest-dot-net
 > >  >  >
 > >  >  >   Hi Terry,
 > >  >  >
 > >  >  >   I just got back from working on a Co-Op as an Engineer in a
 >Nuclear
 > >  > Power
 > >  >  > station and now that I'm back in college I look forward to
 >participating
 > >  > on
 > >  >  > the Tesla List again. I would really appreciate if you could post
 >a
 >small
 > >  >  > message on the list saying that I will be participating on
 >Junkyard
 >Wars
 > >  >  > this Tuesday (January 20th), airing on TLC at 10PM and 1AM, and
 >also
 >on
 > >  >  > Sunday at 3PM. The show was a blast and I'm sure a lot of people
 >on
 >the
 > >  >  > list will want to watch it.
 > >  >  >   I look forward to great discussions on the list :)
 > >  >  >
 > >  >  > Sam Barros
 > >  >  > ME/EE Major at Michigan Tech
 > >  >  > http://www.powerlabs-dot-org
 > >  >  > "If at first you don't succeed, increase the amperage!"
 > >
 > >
 > >