Sunday, April 16, 2006
Musician kills copier
Last night I cleaned up my room, as lots of paper and stuff had started to block all my workspace. Unfortunately, I found an old broken Xerox copier someone gave me a few years ago and that was lying in a plastic bag behind my workbench ever since. I never bothered to find out the reason why it did not work anymore.
So, instead of going to bed I expanded the copier from one single piece to about 200 (see before and after picture). Some nice stuff inside, lots of cogs and gears, two solenoids, a motor and the light source which seems to run from 240 V directly. Maybe I’ll use it as some kind of photo lamp if it still works. Something else I didn’t know: The heat source in the copier seems to be a pretty standard 25 cm Halogen lamp inside a metal tube. Good idea actually, as these lamps usually waste a lot of energy on heat instead of light.
I reassembled the case so it looks like a stock copier again. I guess I’ll use it as a housing for some kind of something later. Another idea would be to use it as a weird photo frame or put in a mirror inside instead of the glass pane and hang it on the wall. Or use it as a backlit table to view slides or film strips.
Ouch. By the way, I could well use a “Leuchttisch” right know, and in the future, too.
If nobody buys you that book, maybe I can trade it in for you paying me a subscritption of one of those english or american music magazines? I will have to calculate a little.
Zwischenprüfung saugt große Zeit. I am proud of this anglizissimus!
Hmm, I would prefer to use it as a terrarium for some strange animals. Maybe you could put some spiders inside.
Recently I had to do a magnetic resonance imaging of my right foot, so if you need something to look at you can use these… or the X-ray picture of this skull. whatever.
i don’t like the idea of spiders hidden in objects of everyday use! everything with more than seven eyes should be kept in titanium boxes deep down in old silos of ancient russian atomic missiles. With a sign saying: “even if you happen to be lost in this silo and see you only way to get out in the map hidden somewhere we do not recommend to open this box!”