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On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 07:25:59 am Robin Gareus did opine:
> On 01/19/2011 06:35 AM, gene heskett wrote:

[...]
> I guess Joern's Studio is only 3 or 4 rooms. It's mostly because he

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> mentioned wall sockets that I suggested this.

> It can also be the wall (or ceiling-mounted) type. I think they're

> called raceways or just cable-tray.

Yup. 
> >> It is currently running inside the ALICE detector @LHC.

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> >

> > Yikes.  If that ever collapses, it will emp into smoke, and and all

> > electrical stuff for many meters around it.

>

> nah It will pull itself into a black hole of course :)

They tried that once, took about a year to rebuild things IIRC. :(
> > That, it can be said is NOT a

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> > friendly environment.  Even your  Casio wrist watch is in danger if

> > you move too fast in that.

>

> The magnetic field you mean? The tricky part is get close enough. You'll

> need a few weeks to undo all the screws on the "enclosure" and not get

> kicked out in the meantime. Once you get in there you don't need to

> move, the electrons inside the watch are already moving fast enough. The

> only workaround is to have only short interconnects and lots of bulk in

> between them.  Luckily this is an OT post:

> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/09/21/dont-cross-the

> -lhc-stream/

Interesting what drifting conversations do when brains get together.
[...]

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> > Silver solder, or just silver bearing solder?

>

> likely both. It is a very well equipped lab. There was a small

> hand-torch in there as well. Though I think it was mostly used as a

> spare lighter :)

>

And of course its out of gas if you need to fire it up and get enough heat

out of it to do a silver joint.  There is a Murphy's Law corollary about

that I've seen someplace. ;-)

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> Thank you for the lengthy explanation.
NP.  When I get started, like most old farts with a loooong history in

broadcasting, I don't know when its time to shut up. ;-)

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> ciao,

> robin

Thanks Robin
--

Cheers, Gene

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