Re: very old plastic +paper tape removal, without ruining painted text.
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Ronson and Zippo lighter fluid are predominately naptha, maybe 90% or so
with some petro distillates thrown in and work just the same but might
leave a lit...
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ReplyDeleteKnown phenomenon: basic electrical theory, mutual inductance, air-cored transformer. Apocryphal story of NZ farmer pwering his milking shed from a line under a national-grid HV stretch across his property. Prosecuted due to inspection having revealed he used a pylon to support one end of his line. :)
ReplyDeleteThe Daily Mail isn't a newspaper, it is purveyor of absolute rubbish, so I wouldn't use that as any kind of reference.
ReplyDeleteStop wearing the Lycra Bill!
Well, signal-powered receivers have been around for a long time. For QRP you might need to store up the broadband input and then discharge for a brief keyed output. Now that huge-value electrolytics are available, this should be more practical than it was in the '30s.
ReplyDeleteOctober 1999 QST, pg. 66 has a letter from KB6FPW in the Silicon valley who gets free power from his local AM radio station, 2.5W 24/365 - and Bill: add drag chains to that bicycle machine
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