02-05-2011, 07:36 PM
I've often hung my nose over those delightul hand-cranked devices, which I've occasionally come across at boot sales and collectors fairs, but at far too high a price for me to be prepared to fork out for one. As a child, I did have a little induction coil which worked off a battery and had two hand-held metal tubes which - if one was so inclined - one could grip and get a thoroughly unpleasant tingling. I think that was the point at which whatever latent proclivities I had, whch would develop as I grew into adolsecence and adulthood, sado-masochsm was definitely off the agenda, as I'm alergic to pain!
At the NVCF last year I saw a dilapidated indiction coil in a sorry state and picked it up to examine it, whereupon the stallholder said 'you're the umpteenth person to pick that up and put it down - no-one is going to buy it so you'd be doing me a big favour if you took it off my hands for nothing, so I did. The end of the base was misssing, so I made a new end. It has no cover beneath the base so I need to make one, and since the base is so shallow, I assume it used to run of a flat flashlight battery - one of those with two sprigny brass contacts at the end. It's been gathering dust until I get a round tuit, and it looks rather sorry for itself, but should clean up nicely. I've not even checked if the primary and secondary coils are intact. It beats me how things such as this fall into such a state of disrepair.
No doubt if I poked around on t'internet, I'd find info about this or similar induction coils, which would help me refurbish it and get it working, before it gets turfed out as 'granddad's junk'.
David
At the NVCF last year I saw a dilapidated indiction coil in a sorry state and picked it up to examine it, whereupon the stallholder said 'you're the umpteenth person to pick that up and put it down - no-one is going to buy it so you'd be doing me a big favour if you took it off my hands for nothing, so I did. The end of the base was misssing, so I made a new end. It has no cover beneath the base so I need to make one, and since the base is so shallow, I assume it used to run of a flat flashlight battery - one of those with two sprigny brass contacts at the end. It's been gathering dust until I get a round tuit, and it looks rather sorry for itself, but should clean up nicely. I've not even checked if the primary and secondary coils are intact. It beats me how things such as this fall into such a state of disrepair.
No doubt if I poked around on t'internet, I'd find info about this or similar induction coils, which would help me refurbish it and get it working, before it gets turfed out as 'granddad's junk'.
David
