Dietrich_R1
Sat Feb 14th, 2009, 10:16 PM
Does anyone have an idea how to polish acrylic or where to get it done at?
Today we made electron trees with accrylic. Think of it like lightning.
It was so frigg'n awesome!!!!! You'ld think it would get boring but after making each one we all had smiles on our faces like we were little kids again!!!!
We'ld shoot the accrylic with a stripped down linear accelerator for a bit & then tap a grounded screw into the bottom. Just the thought of 1-2 Million e- volts jumping around was COOL!!!! Not extremely safe, but the person who gave us permission was pretty much clueless... =:-)
You might get a kick out of this video. It shows what we did today... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfsoithqUeY
Here's the Wiki link to give a little more depth to it. I only wish the accrylic I got my hands on was like shown in the picture. Anyway, I want to polish up the accrylic & put some lights underneath in a display....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenberg_figure
Today we made electron trees with accrylic. Think of it like lightning.
It was so frigg'n awesome!!!!! You'ld think it would get boring but after making each one we all had smiles on our faces like we were little kids again!!!!
We'ld shoot the accrylic with a stripped down linear accelerator for a bit & then tap a grounded screw into the bottom. Just the thought of 1-2 Million e- volts jumping around was COOL!!!! Not extremely safe, but the person who gave us permission was pretty much clueless... =:-)
You might get a kick out of this video. It shows what we did today... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfsoithqUeY
Here's the Wiki link to give a little more depth to it. I only wish the accrylic I got my hands on was like shown in the picture. Anyway, I want to polish up the accrylic & put some lights underneath in a display....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenberg_figure