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Hear Ye! Hear Ye!!! The Holiday Season is upon us!!! And not wanting to not have a competiton before the end of the 2006 year, at dinner last night we came up with a very quick one--- (wait for it...) Capacitor Races!!!! Yes indeed! Some Saturday (...) (18 years ago, 12-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Sounds great! I've got a capacitor somewhere so I'll bring it for anyone to use. As well as me. :-) I was think after dinner we could come up with all sorts of contests. Fastest over a short distance, fastest over a long distance, longest distance (...) (18 years ago, 12-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) You guys really kill me. Seriously: Four years ago: (URL) years ago: (URL) years ago: (URL) I spend FOUR YEARS trying to get people to capacitor cars, and no one cares. Then all of a sudden it's like "Let's do capacitor cars!" This is proof (...) (18 years ago, 12-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Dave, where is this store? I'm out in Quebec City all next week and I'd really like to try this with one of my kids. I'd like at least two of the capacitors. Oh, I just got the joke. You're the assistant? Maybe I can reserve some at the store (...) (18 years ago, 12-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) As a wise man once told me - you can't push a rope. He also asked the philosophical question - how many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? One, but the light bulb has to want to change. Ralph (18 years ago, 12-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Hi Ralph, The store is near Winston Churchill and Dundas in Mississauga--2410 Dunwin. I'm there on some Saturdays, but the store is open on Fridays as well. Unfortunately for the plastic carrying memebers of society, the store only takes (...) (18 years ago, 14-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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So I stopped at the store and picked one up on the way home from judging... There were no instructions.....any direction on using the capacitor??? (I don't want to reverse bias it and blow it up or anything...) -Rob A> (18 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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You can charge it either way. It won't blow up. But it does work better one way over the other. So you'll have to experiment with it. Derek (...) (18 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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And just a quick heads up, we have only one capacitor left now, other 2 disappeared into rtl member hands today, so that's the last one left if someone wants to reserve it. I just don't want to have a fight outside the store like for a PS3!! If (...) (18 years ago, 19-Nov-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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