Cotton-insulated silver wire

[simon7000]

Ed: If you derived that using an Arrhenius approximation, you grossly underestimate the time. There's an activation energy that needs to be exceeded to have the annealing process start. Remember, if you keep an egg for 4 minutes at 100C, you get a soft boiled egg. If you keep it at 39C for 6 weeks, you get a chicken.

SY,

I thought you would chime in on that you humor deprived soul, you forgot leap years and centuries!

I prefer my regular sized eggs at 3 minutes and the large at 3 1/2, can't we agree on anything?

ES

 

[SY]

My wife hates runny eggs- my signature dish unfortunately involves shirred eggs and she won't eat it.

 

[simon7000]

My wife hates runny eggs- my signature dish unfortunately involves shirred eggs and she won't eat it.

So you are saying you wife is chicken and won't eat tasty eggs? I coddle them, faster to eat without shell bit worries.

 

[SY]

Get thee to Texas and I'll rock your world with a dish I learned in Alba.

 

[simon7000]

Get thee to Texas and I'll rock your world with a dish I learned in Alba.

A dish with cotton insulated silver wire?

 

[SY]

One hopes not...

 

[Jack Caldwell]

arrgghh

So you are saying you wife is chicken and won't eat tasty eggs? I coddle them, faster to eat without shell bit worries.

From egg-ony to egg-stasy in 4 minutes...:

What's this got to do with wires aside from being all twisted up?

 

[Steve Eddy]

Get thee to Texas...

That reminds me...

Was watching Sarah Vowell on BookTV a few weeks ago and she was in Austin giving a talk on her book, Unfamiliar Fishes.

Don't know what had gone on before, but it opened with her saying "I know it's Austin, you just have microphones everywhere here."

se

 

[fredex]

Ed: If you derived that using an Arrhenius approximation, you grossly underestimate the time. There's an activation energy that needs to be exceeded to have the annealing process start. Remember, if you keep an egg for 4 minutes at 100C, you get a soft boiled egg. If you keep it at 39C for 6 weeks, you get a chicken.

Very very good!

 

[marce]

!!!!!
CopperTop #28 very droll, clumps of electrons.
How do you reverse a.c. signals

 

[CopperTop]

How do you reverse a.c. signals

That's an easy one! The PhD scientists and engineers at Siltech and other cable companies helpfully mark their cables with the correct direction of signal flow. Simply connect the cable with the '<-' pointing towards the signal source to reverse the signal.

 

[PeterDupont]

I'm not into esoteric and wildly expensive cables - simply can't afford them.
But in my country, we had a now deceased "diy"'er - Steen Duelund - that I had the great opportunity to work with in certain areas. One was, that 0.8 mm. silver wrapped in cotton cloth and wiped with your favorite cooking-oil was very, very good.
Some kind of magic is going on, and it's not due to the fabric or oil-at-choice.
Please experiment!

 

[SY]

Don't know what had gone on before, but it opened with her saying "I know it's Austin, you just have microphones everywhere here."

In LA, every waiter has a script. In Austin, every cab driver has demo CDs.

 

[Cal Weldon]

I soak my wire in WD40 for a day or so. It prevents the electrons from ever clumping in the first place.

 

[simon7000]

I'm not into esoteric and wildly expensive cables - simply can't afford them.
But in my country, we had a now deceased "diy"'er - Steen Duelund - that I had the great opportunity to work with in certain areas. One was, that 0.8 mm. silver wrapped in cotton cloth and wiped with your favorite cooking-oil was very, very good.
Some kind of magic is going on, and it's not due to the fabric or oil-at-choice.
Please experiment!

Oil is polar!

 

[SY]

Only oil from Warsaw.

 

[simon7000]

Only oil from Warsaw.

SY,

Can I send you a high voltage capacitor that was charged, shorted and is now open circuit?

ES

 

[SY]

Sure. That was the basis of a joke we used to play on the new fish in our lab when I was a grad student. We did E-jump measurements, and this was usually referred to as "FNG-jump."

 

[simon7000]

Sure. That was the basis of a joke we used to play on the new fish in our lab when I was a grad student. We did E-jump measurements, and this was usually referred to as "FNG-jump."

And what restores the charge?

 

[SY]

The difference between "polarity" and "polarizability."

The charge isn't restored, only a small fraction of it (in the case of oil, a VERY small fraction, unless there's the usual hygroscopic paper involved or if the oil is badly degraded). Remember, oil is just low molecular weight polyethylene.