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Subject: [TenTec] smoke canisters
From: tacquire@earthlink.net (Dan)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:46:33 -0700
And sometimes when you fire up an old piece of equipment those beeeeeeg long
round canisters that have names like "Atoms" and "Cornell Dubilier"  go up in
a blaze of glory letting out all of their precious smoke in a roman candle
effect! :)))
Course it's really fun to put in your smoke canisters backwards to
:))))))))))  The bigger ones the better :)


seweber@netnitco.net wrote:

> Dang, I thought smoke made this stuff work.  I've cut wires but haven't
> seen any electrons flow out.  I've looked at the cut end under a magnifier
> but haven't seen any holes, however when one of those little cannisters
> with the pretty colored rings and a wire on each end breaks, the smoke
> leaks out of the circuit and it stops working.  Soldering in a new smoke
> cannister usually fixes things right up.  The trick is to know exactly
> which type of smoke to use.
>
> 73 de Steve Weber, KD9BO
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> firing an infinite number of shotguns
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