Re:ATM whats the stupidest thing youve ever done?

[Frank Henriquez <frank@ucla.edu>]

I once decided to make a metal mirror out of airgun pellets. I melted 
a few hundred pellets in a pan on the electric stove (1st stupid 
thing that day). Then I though that rather than make a flat blank, I 
could use the thin 6" dia. plate glass tool from my recently 
completed Edmunds mirror kit as the master. I built a dam out of many 
layers of masking tape, then poured in the molten tin/lead. THAT'S 
when it occurred to me that this wasn't a good idea. Just then, the 
plate tool shattered into 3 or 4 pieces.
This wasn't the only stupid ATM thing I've done - I also tried to 
melt paraffin in a pan, on the same stove (set to HIGH). The vapors 
promptly exploded. Wow - that was fun! I did have a hard time 
explaining the odd looking scorch mark on the ceiling to my Mom.

My only excuse is that I was in my mid teens at the time...

Frank
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Frank Henriquez  Programmer/Analyst  Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA
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