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How To Turn a Mini Maglite Into a Laser
Lucas123 writes "Using the laser from a DVD burner, this instructional video shows you how to create a hand-held laser that is powerful enough to light a match and pop a balloon. There's some soldering involved and the Maglite's bulb housing needs to be drilled out to fit the new laser diode, but with some basic skill, most people could do this. Just plain cool." Update: 07/09 12:23 GMT by KD : Warning, the device that results from following these instructions will blind you if you look into it.
It's the yank way of saying it. Very very odd.
Parent is the first post I see, it has a topical observation yet it's marked "redundant"... by people who don't want to read ANY comment?
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Screw Geneva convention. .38 special.
Our own Govt. will sick the DHS on us before we can even "think" about maglite.
Let me count the ways...
1. Maglite would be under an unspeakable warrant by FBI and DHS for producing WMDs.
2. Pilots toolkits would no longer conetain maglites.
3. People who bought, borrowed or lent maglites would be under investigation for procuring or distributing WMDs...oh of course thaey can't tell it to even their families.
4. Anyone caught in the actual usage of such maglite would be arrested and rendered either to their native country (Rudy Polanski would be sent to Poland, etc.) or rendered to Gitmo.
5. Congress would pass two law: One would be to outlaw maglite-like bulbs and another allots about $5 billion of taxpayers money to subsidise Maglite Corp. Also since maglites are made in CHina this would make FTC to ban all chinese imports of bulbs, etc.
6. Ebay would be pulling down as rapidly as possible all maglite sales...
7. Maglites would be traded as currency in Second Life and WoW.
8. Someone would beat a cop with a maglite and it would be classified immediately as a First-Degree assault weapon on par with Colt Magnum
Welcome to US of A.
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
Umm... is it me or is the metal contained in those coins worth more than the coin when used as currency?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Yes, the rising price of metals has made certain coinage worth more than its face value.
Of course, governments are quick to place restrictions on the export of these coins, and ban their meltdown for metal.
Here in the US we call them douchebags, assholes, fucktards,and asshats.
Otherwise, us Yanks are thinking 'soldiering?' WTF is he talking about..
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
Re: your sig
You just got in there, so don't be so cocky.
I hate printers.
Parent was funny... Why did you mod it down? Mod both up.
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It is for nickels, but not dimes, quarters, or those dollar coins. Pennies were right on the edge you can get up to date values from http://www.coinflation.com./ Pre 1982 pennies (copper)are now worth almost $0.03 these days. Oh and the GBP is worth about $2.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.