Either that is the most hilariously sarcastic post I have seen in quite
a while (if so, kudos to you), or it is now apparent that I have been
mysteriously transported to some weird alternative universe ....
possibly Narnia or some place similar to it. Anyone out there know how
I can find the door in the back of the closet to get back home?
Dave AB7E
On 9/1/2010 9:15 AM, David J. Sourdis - HK1A wrote:
> I did two "L" out of an old coat hanger wire. About 6" for the handles and
> 30" for long part of the wire L.
> Take one on each hand as an inverted L , being the vertical part of the
> inverted L, the 6" handles, the long parts of the Ls should be horizontal,
> parallel and looking in the same direction you are walking on. When there is
> an underground discontinuity made of water the Ls will tend to rotate to the
> center, making the 30 inch sides cross each other. Even if you rotate your
> wrists to the outside (right wrist going clockwise, opposite for left),
> making the rods to move upwards on an inclined plane, the rods will rotate to
> the center overcoming the pull of gravity for small inclinations. I could
> locate the positions of the corners of an old sewer system well in my
> backyard with this rods. Not a good place to put a tower, hihi
> More interestingly: I did the rods from a book about Pyramids ("The magical
> powers of the pyramid" is the translation of the spanish title). Using thin
> cardboard, I made a scaled version of the Gizah pyramids, about three inches
> high and a second one about three times that size.
> When the rods where moved at belly height over one of the pyramids sitting on
> the floor, the rods would rotate to the center very quick, ONLY IF the faces
> of the pyramid were aligned with the cardinal points the rods would move, if
> the faces were aligned with NE, SE, NW and SW, instead of N, S, E, W, the
> rods wouldn't move.
> To make the pyramid: Draw a circle on the cardboard. The radius of the circle
> multiplied by 1,0517 (the radius + 5.17%) is the square base's side lenght.
> With the base lenght draw four end to end chords on the circle and then draw
> lines between the ends of the chords and the circle center, this lines will
> be the edges of the pyramid that part from the square base corners and meet
> at the top (circle center). The chords are the four bottom sides of the
> faces. The four resulting triangles are the faces of your pyramid, no base
> needed. Then cut out the drawing and bend by the edges to form the pyramid,
> it is wise to leave an extra flip strip on one of the end faces to make the
> closing and gluing of the pyramid easier and stronger.
> CHORD:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secant_line
> Sorry about Pyramid talk, back to Tower Talk :o)
> 73
>
>
> David
> HK1A
> EC5KXA
> ex-HK1KXA
>
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