yes it cooked the orange colours to browny brown

Cookie hot. =P

it would eventually go back to being a nice glowing orange when it burnt out completely ! briefly

Black is the new orange :)

is that so !

not so sure its A4 size like mine

lol. I did not noticed, had to recheck it :D that's a CALCULATOR :D

Maybe BigClive's hands are shrinking ...?

I feel the same about your mother

can it do bigger sums because it's bigger ?

my barbecue briquettes do that in seconds - best observed in bright sunlight with a brisk sou'westerly gusting to 35 Knots. Reminds me of what goes black, white, black, white, red? (Something to do with a set of stairs, gravity, a nun and a sharp instrument.)

The common barbecue charcoal briquette sold in stores contains lime as an indicator agent, which is why the briquette turns a uniform white color when burned. Natural charcoal will not turn a white color when burned, you'll either get grey ash or black dust when combustion is finished.

The briquette contains clay. as a binder, to increase heat capacity and probably slow the burn. but nirmal charcoal also makes white ash. These are the minerals, e.g. potassium (carbonate)

Have you ever smashed a radio valve (USA esp. "tube") and watched the gettering go from shiny metallic black to powdery white in a couple of seconds?

@@28YorkshireRose12 yes I have seen that happen after dropping it. Somebody else I have to drop another one once for some reason I like a paint can or something like that or something somewhere full of water hit the edge when the tube got dropped this was a different tube of course part of the to move at least that was still attached to the base contain the get her and all that the actual get her ring that wound up in the water and actually started fizzing that was rather unusual thing to see wonder what the physics behind it that is or at least the chemistry

Close... 1965.

big Bang and all the lights out in the street !

thehappylittlefox aka benji Thats more like Photonicinduction style... wizzard of light and darkness :)

but but 69' heheheh

A special year, atmospheric nuclear testing was banned, then you came along to make up for it. ;) I did my best too, nearly blew my parents house up several times before age 13 and electrocuted myself at 2. Eavesdropped my elder brothers bedroom when they had girls visiting. Fun times!

Good being the cheap Chinese neon lamp, evil being the iPad. Am i right?

its the remnants of a long ago star wars light sabre battle !

@@thehappylittlefoxakabenji8154 think that's what they're getting at I believe

Places like Home Depot still have these neon flicker bulbs with the chandelier bulbs.

If you think about it these are sold to home and apartment renters in the local home and hardware stores, and they don't have big orange warning labels wrapped around them that say DANGER! PROFESSIONAL USE ONLY! SUPER TOXIC RISK! USE ONLY IN APPROVED BLASTPROOF SOLID LEAD FIXTURES! Something like this is going to occasionally get broken around a home, even if there are babies present. And yet the department of Health and Coddling lets them be sold. They can't be all that deadly in small quantities.

Yes, and fluorescent tubes tubes contain a small amount of mercury. It's all about likelihood of causing harm. With lethal doses being 3-5 g of even the most soluble Barium compounds it is extremely unlikely to cause harm. In the UK there are actually rules around fluorescent tubes that a lot of people are not aware of. It is illegal to intentionally break a fluorescent tube, if you are a business you must store used tubes in a safe and secure manner ready for recycling, tubes may not enter landfill - they must be recycled. Technically an energy saving lamp (the type with the folded tubes) are CFL - Compact FLuorescent or CCFL - Cold Cathode FLuorescent lamps and must be handled the same way. So who here just throws them in the bin? The other distinction to be made is that a lot of heavy metal compounds remain in the body and have a cumulative toxic effect (this is particularly true of Mercury and Lead, this is why there is so much concern over water contamination of these metals and their compounds) many Barium compounds on the other hand leave the body so the effect does not build up over time.

I agree with you! I wish be had sacrificed one of the non-defective bulbs, this one was unique, and virtually impossible to replace!

I actually have some of those light bulbs that were used in The LCD watches before like the Indiglo watch came out subminiature linear incandescent. There are some miniature bulbs similar still available evidently but they're very hard to find and Specialty they use them sometimes in model railroading I bet you those things probably cost less than those because of the quantity they were used in I've got both still plus a lot of the older grain of wheat and grain of rice bulbs that were 1.5 volts and 3 volts as well got some do filled it ones as well but vary in voltages that stuff I saved whatever I could get it. I'm into Lego adults have Lego actually I found it those miniature bulbs fit easily through the holes in like a headlight right angle breaks. I've used it to create working like lamps and all for the like of sit-ups yeah not entirely a purist obviously. Cutting Gorilla Glue Sakura Edge I know but when you do something custom it's okay in my book. I even have a box with a built with flicker LEDs from flickering LED candles to do fireplaces. Also a lot of those I recovered from Dickens Village and like Department 56 like stuff like that interpreted the subminiature incandescent NYSEG use they already had leads attached as well In addition back in the old days where that was mainly what was used really before there were white LEDs which at a time did not exist. But the often used Amber LEDs once those things start going LED. But the great thing about the incandescent as you could run them on sit-in series to match other voltages you're using even running on the official Lego system voltage. And also under running them on that as well would increase lifetime but don't know what they read but I didn't want to push it at all. Also I remember at the fabric store running across these modules that were meant for lighting various things hobby shops as well they had groups of I think it was 10 some major incandescents double A battery pack also there were some that had Chaser circuits on them noticed it always start in the same position same bulb every time. Upon applying power. Antop home I could put that to use. By the way there are five groups of two flashed in sequence. Think you get where I'm going movie theater with working Marquis. Later on once I became available I was able to do that hundred percent Lego with the Lego fiber optic system in a motor there you go hundred percent by go chasing Marquee lights unfortunately just in red oh well but it was 100% Lego

Ditto

Frankly I haven't heard of that one Land of the Giants but I do actually have the like Sid and Marty Krofft oh there's pretty much especially HR pufnstuf I'm sure you may have heard or at least some people have about the stink they put up with McDonald's and their large puppets the off the McDonald Land commercials mostly I think it was yeah that could easily happen eventually just like with their issue with their theme song and the the song feeling groovy I think that was the one that was based on the same tune sort of can't remember quite right but yeah something wrong that lines

Solder with a touch of magnesium added might work.

Or an argon/nitrogen nozzle on the iron tip...

It would have been easier to solder onto the blob of solder next to the glass.

yeme Yeah I thought the same. And they also kept getting dodgier by the minute. Pretty sure it's mildly toxic if not extremely. XD

Perhaps a barium coating of some kind? Certainly acted like the barium getter in a vacuum tube when exposed to air...

I have the US/Canadian version back in stock www.ebay.com/itm/Cliff-QuickTest-in-US-Canada-Wire-Colors-/302263880948

Is "lost my box" some weird euphemism for what happened to you in one of the brothels? ;-)

I've obviously missed a golden opportunity to fill in between the L and I with a Sharpie.

bigclivedotcom Clive, you might have just opened whole new markets for those bulbs.

it's A* flicker bulb.

Possibly, but electrode seems optimised to flicker.

Yep oftentimes would see those in Windows lamps that would have the socket wired for two different sockets and support or through a switch either both on either one or off and typically you'd have a flame bulb down into lower although I used to use one of those two headed like a 7 watt night light bulb in it just for a little of white so you don't trip over anything it was pretty dark in the then where I stayed downstairs that lamp actually needed a new socket and switch is how I got it one day upgrade to a different lamp. Eventually I want to do with those voltage regular night light that used to be on voltage regulator tube as the night light bulb voltage doubler perhaps the resistor is well or otherwise build into something like compact fluorescent base and put that in that socket and when those lamps there you go

You don't need a laser. We've got several of these lamps in candelabra holders either side of the fireplace (put there by the previous owners of the house). We noticed that one of the lamps just glows steadily and doesn't flicker, and I'd heard that light tended to aid the discharge so I shone an LED torch at it, and the flickering perked up. Other tests: Bringing my (probably fairly earthed) finger anywhere near the bulb altered the discharge pattern. But the best thing was to hit the bulb (gently: not hard enough to "release any knowledge"!) with an insulated rod (the handle of a screwdriver) which made the electrodes vibrate without the electrostatic effect of the earthed finger. The vibrating plates produced a tremendous discharge - presumably as the gap between them reduced and increased, affecting the striking voltage.

It's a device called a Quick Test. Now available in US and European colours.

Andrew J McKeown bro you liking your own comment and shit, ain't nobody wanna pay $60 for that shit.

I have the US/Canadian version back in stock www.ebay.com/itm/Cliff-QuickTest-in-US-Canada-Wire-Colors-/302263880948 Most of the delays is the manufacturing lead time from Cliff. When I put in an order it can be as long as a month or more before they are ready to ship.

A decent margin is needed across the resistor to regulate the current. Without it the neon would literally pass as much current as it could.

@@bigclivedotcom of course: Neon might have a ~50V drop but probably doesn't obey Ohm's Law. Got it. Thanks!

The Cat Behaviour Channel No, the iPad is fixed at 30fps. In lower light it would increase the exposure level but not the frame rate, which is optimised for 60Hz mains in the US.

@@WaltonPete frame rate != exposure time, which can be up to 1/2 the frame rate.

I didn't. If I take one apart again I'll do so.

I may have some of those shiny flame lamps somewhere. When left running they settled down and stopped being so active.

bigclivedotcom yeah they do that! Also they don't always light immediately. Have you tried running them on DC? I've toyed with the idea of removing the cap from one and using it to indicate polarity.

Pure iron wouldn't have oxidized a white coating within seconds of being opened though. Maybe they are iron electrodes, but coated with something else? Possibly an emissive coating similar to what is used on the electrodes of fluorescent tubes.

Sebastian Rietig the outside of both flame parts should glow, this one had been assembled wrong, causing the outside of one and the inside of the other to glow.