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Built a 737NG cockpit with a lot of working knobs and switches that function. Grand kids love playing with it. Runs on 5 networked computers and 8 monitors. A lot of add on software and Microsoft Flight Sim 9. Main PC runs 2 video cards for the forward views. The other PC's run all the glass instrumentation.

 

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I have a theatre pipe organ that I built and installed in our home.  The console is from a 1927 Wurlitzer.  The pipes are from various manufacturers.  I built a roll player attachment that plays the organ from piano rolls.  When I get tired of working on the layout I work on this project.

 

 

 

 

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1927 Wurlitzer console

 

 

 

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Some of the pipes

 

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WOW, Guys...I'm Overwhelmed!

 

Here's my home-made hand-cranked 300,000-Volt Electrostatic "Bonetti" Machine.

 

A pair of 25" diameter counter-rotating acrylic discs generates the charge, which crashes between the copper terminals when the Leyden Jars let go.

 

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Originally Posted by NelsonW:

Built a 737NG cockpit with a lot of working knobs and switches that function. Grand kids love playing with it. Runs on 5 networked computers and 8 monitors. A lot of add on software and Microsoft Flight Sim 9. Main PC runs 2 video cards for the forward views. The other PC's run all the glass instrumentation.

 

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Nice cockpit. This was mine for many hours.

 

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HEY CHOO-CHOO BOB,

 

Those are not Tesla coils...what you see is ONE Van de Graaff Electrostatic Generator, which I designed for a yield of 1.12 million volts, which it never achieved due to excessive corona leakage.

 

The 30" sphere is now a backyard garden ornament.  (The metal spinner charged me $300 to spin the 2 hemispheres)

 

The other 2 devices are simply ground terminals to give the discharge a complete circuit. 

 

I stopped building Tesla Coils years ago when I realized that the primary excitation voltages were lethal...they could KILL you!

 

The super high voltage secondary discharges are harmless, because they're high frequency, which does not penetrate the body, but flows over it externally. 

 

It's the much lower 60Hz primary voltages that are dangerous...like an electric chair!

 

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BTW...in the early 1950's I worked as a dial central office equipment installer for the General Telephone Company.

 

I installed the old Stowger step-by-step electro-mechanical switches...Line Switches, Line Finders, Selectors, and Connectors.

 

 

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Just a few{too many!}-

-pair of old Kawasaki sleds in the mother-in-law room{covered trailer}

-what my wife calls my other wife{she's in for new glass seals and interior-not the real wife, the car!}

-a few models for retirement{I should start a hobby shop-really}

-a few restored old tonka trucks for my son{more not seen}

-my Burlington Route collection

...I think that's enough...and in my spare time I play with model trains!!!

 

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HEY OVERLAND,

 

Ahhh...a Gibson!

 

Just learn your Major, Minor, Minor 7th, Diminished, Augmented, 6th, 7th, and 9th Chords in all 12 keys (96 chords), and then sit down and have a nice cocktail while listening to Les Paul!

 

BAD ORDER  (Playing Bass in a Senior Citizens band...they weren't very good, and

three in that picture are now deceased...the Pianist was 98.) 

 

 

 

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Originally Posted by Bad Order Hal:

HEY OVERLAND,

 

Ahhh...a Gibson!

 

Just learn your Major, Minor, Minor 7th, Diminished, Augmented, 6th, 7th, and 9th Chords in all 12 keys (96 chords), and then sit down and have a nice cocktail while listening to Les Paul!

 

BAD ORDER  (Playing Bass in a Senior Citizens band...they weren't very good, and

three in that picture are now deceased...the Pianist was 98.) 

 

 

 

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At at the risk of being picky and technical, there are really only 3 diminished chords--when you consider the actual notes being played. There are four inversions of each chord. 

 

Jeff C

I never understood how someone can only have one or two hobbies. At one time or another I have been involved in:

 

  • Radio Controlled Aircraft, Boats, and Cars
  • Slot Cars
  • Video Games
  • Fishing
  • Boating (Speed, Cruise, and Sail)
  • Hi-Fi Audio and Home Theater
  • Plastic models
  • Camping
  • Archery
  • Kayaking
  • Hiking
  • Railfanning
  • Sports cars
  • Motorcycling
  • Bicycling
  • Model Rocketry
  • Computers / Hi-tech

And probably others...

Ride the bike and hike.
Pittsburgh to DC bike ride.


Salisbury viaduct.

Grand Canyon 2011 Son Matt/daughter-in-law Emily.

Hike between Cottonwood and Bright Angel Campgrounds.

On our way from the river to the South rim.  Break just before Indian Garden

Vermont/Mount Mansfield last summer.

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Gee, a friend of mine's brother was regularly riding his big Honda bike from Washington state to Toledo, Ohio, and then eastern Tennessee and back to Wash. past his 90th birthday, but now he uses a motorhome, or was last I heard.

I could not get those Grand Canyon photos to open.  The mule ride to the river was on

my list, but I never got around to it, and I only did a short raft trip in the lower canyon, not even one of the long camping ones.  The mule ride requires(d?) far in advance reservations, and I was reluctant to lock something in that far ahead.

Certainly a WIDE variety of interests...I did not want to bore people with details

about some of mine....so much for us train people being treated like computer geeks

with narrow interests and tunnel vision. 

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