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Grinderman

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I made this scorpion for my son for Halloween/his birthday. He started life as a piece of 1/2"x1" 1018 along with some 5/16" rod. The pic was my inspiration. He was a lot of fun to make and I think I used every tool in my shop. I wanted to keep it bare steel but of course it would rust right away. I always wanted to try the DIY nickel plating process and this was the perfect opportunity. It's really easy and it came out great.
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Wow, is that ever cool! Nice job there, Grinderman! :encourage:

-frank
 
It was called the "Strange Change Machine". They could never sell them today. There were so many cool toys when I was a kid that can not be made today.
 
I remember a book I got as a kid, called "The Magic of Chemistry". Among other things, it had some projects that showed how to make simple fireworks, pyrophoric dust and the like. I think you'd be arrested for just trying to BUY some of those chemicals now. When it was originally published in the 60's many of those chemicals could be found in every drugstore.
 
I remember a book I got as a kid, called "The Magic of Chemistry". Among other things, it had some projects that showed how to make simple fireworks, pyrophoric dust and the like. I think you'd be arrested for just trying to BUY some of those chemicals now. When it was originally published in the 60's many of those chemicals could be found in every drugstore.
I had one called '101 Chemistry Experiments for Boys' . It was confiscated and I think destroyed after someone coated the underside of a real prick of a teacher's desk with a vibration/contact detonated Iodine based explosive. No culprit was ever apprehended but some parents had suspicions and chemistry sets mysteriously disappeared.
 
I had one called '101 Chemistry Experiments for Boys' . It was confiscated and I think destroyed after someone coated the underside of a real prick of a teacher's desk with a vibration/contact detonated Iodine based explosive. No culprit was ever apprehended but some parents had suspicions and chemistry sets mysteriously disappeared.

I made some of that stuff, too. It does go "bang" quite easily. It's chemical name is nitrogen triiodide. Once during an experiment I inadvertently made a small amount of nitrogen trichloride (I only figured out what it was later). It was an oily blob on the bottom of a test tube -- for awhile. Then it exploded. The test tube was turned into glass dust. I was wearing glasses at the time, that's probably what saved my eyes from serious injury.

That was about the end of my high school chemistry experiments.
 
Oh yes. I remember those days going to the corner drug store with my chemistry book and the druggist giving me all sorts of nasty stuff to take home and play with. As a matter of fact those bottles are still on a closet shelf in my bedroom of my child hood house I think. o_O
 
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