[TheForge] Re: computer power pack

Tue Sep 10 02:55:00 2002

Y'all got me curious so I just stripped an obsolete computer tape
drive (circa 1985 model) so that the nice case has just the power
supply.  I can get 12v that will run the tape drive motor but it
doesn't deliver enough current to run a 12v car horn.  Maybe handy for
electrolytic derusting or something?

Drifting even further off topic, I'm moved into my new shop but not
set up.  Trying to get things organized, rooting through stuff I
haven't seen for years I came on a battery charger someone gave me in
the 60s.  Big old transformer, huge screw-base vacuum tube (for a
rectifier?), alleged to deliver up to 6 amps and has a patch panel on
the front to select how many batteries you're charging (from 1 to 12).
Yow!  I've never plugged this thing in.  Gotta replace the wires that
have crumbly fabric insulation and see what it will do.

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 

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