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I lost the pics, but one of the electrical engineers at the Observatory where I worked had built one, his had a wire loop come up above the tube and that was where the plasma arc was generated. He was powering it off his laptop but he said it looked a lot cooler when hooked up to his stereo...

Thank you for the kind words gents, I'm doing better, the road rash is all healed up, the lung only hurts occasionally and briefly, the middle finger is doing a bit worse but I blame that on me being on the computer more than I should. Finally, the right ankle is indeed fractured, medial...

Thank you for the well wishes, other than my knuckle and ankle, I'm feeling pretty good considering, although I do feel like my mental clarity has been effected by the blow to the head, not much, and hopefully it goes away, but its there. I have rode without a helmet before, once when a...

Back on the 22nd of last month, I had spent the morning at work (machine shop for the Carnegie Observatory) and the afternoon at my engineering design class (solidworks) Shortly after hoping on my Harley to make the 15 minute drive home, apparently I was hit by an oncoming car, the driver was a...

Army National Guard Infantry (6 years), combat MP (3 years), and now Forward Observer (3 and counting). Thanks for the welcome guys, this is a pretty cool site, great info, some really impressive projects. Tin Falcon: what part of Jersey are you from? My little sis lives in Annandale, rest of...

Thank you, I'm looking forward to starting the 4-in-1 engine project, this site is bad for me, I saw Oldboatguy's beam engine and I want to build that one as well, I need to get another job to help fund all this lol.

At the beginning of this semester I decided to build a miniature cannon for my advanced machine shop class, starting on a vacuum engine soon. Anyways, here is some pictures and info regarding the cannon. I looked at some pictures online of various cannons, and used that to draw up the...

Hello everyone, my name is Craig and am a 12 year Combat Arms veteran and have recently started a new career path in machining. I am in my second semester at a local college going for a 2 year certificate program for both Machine Shop tech and Engineering Design. I am also finishing up a 6 month...