Re: [TCML] My x-ray machine

["McCauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley@xxxxxxxx>]

Safety is all relative too.
Your teenage son or daughter is much more likely to get injured (or killed) riding a bicycle down the street than even playing with an X-Ray machine or Tesla Coil.  I work and play with high voltage all day long, but commuting home on my bicycle is what scares the sh#%@ out of me.

Dan



-----Original Message-----
From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Bradley
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 5:32 PM
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Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [TCML] My x-ray machine

I remember as a child, constantly checking The Boy Electrician out of my local public library, and wishing I could afford the xray tubes, geisler tubes, etc., that he showed how to use.  I did, in fact, build many of the projects in that book, including my first Tesla Coil when I was 11 years old. (I even took it to "show and tell" in elementary school.)   Amazingly, I'm still alive now 56 years later.  But safety is important---many of the tings that I did growing up I never told my kids about---years later I realized how dangerous they were, and how fortunate I was to be alive.


Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.- Goethe


--- On Sat, 1/7/12, dave pierson <dave_p@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: dave pierson <dave_p@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [TCML] My x-ray machine
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, January 7, 2012, 11:02 AM

[... at moderator's discretion...]

1) Very casual web search will show many many such already
   posted.

2) Yes, other things are dangerous: and are recognized
   as such.  X-Rays are subtle, slow motion dangers.  It
   took the entire human race 75 years to understand
   the risks.

best
dwp
 
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