"I'm breaking sh!t n making robots, mom!!!"

[arcenite]

I used to take a hammer to hotwheels... and wirecutters, and plyers.

 

[MaxDepth]

I think I invented the DVD player when I tried to stuff a PlaySchool record into the Betamax machine.

 

[dxkj]

I used to take apart anything with an electric motor in it. Those handheld fans, cassette players, etc.

When I got a bit older, I started combining Electric motors (small ones) + rubber band + leggos = my own zippy cars. Tighter rubber bands, etc, experimentation.


When I was younger I was also fascinated by the little magnets in the engines, I used to have like 20 of those curved ones.

 

[Amused]

At least you didn't do that with people.

like I did

:Q

 

[Stratum9]

My brother was the one who took apart electrical appliances. Me, I had a chemistry set, which, after performing all the experiments in the book, set out making up my own experiments. I made all kinds of mad concoctions using such household products as bleach and Worschtersher Sauce -- have no idea what I was trying to make there.

Once I tried to make synthetic adrenaline, so I could perform superhuman feats. I even researched the subject in the library. But not having much of a budget and no research grants I was forced to make do with more household products (potatoes I think) and I was never successful.

After that I gave up on chemistry and when I grew up I went to college and majored in English Lit.

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: Palek

I managed to run 220 volts through my body one time... That taught me to respect electricity.

I did that once, I will never forget it either.

For some reason the lights just didnt switch on in my head when the bulb in the refrigerator went and i stuck my hand in to change it, damn that hurt.

There was another time when i came out the shower and switched the hall light on on the way to my bedroom.. I never made it to my bedroom, I ended up in hospital for 6 hours with severe concussion after being flung against the other wall...

Yeah, I respecta Electricity in a big way'

 

[djNickb]

Originally posted by: dpm
Heh
It seems like every time there is a family get together I suddenly become the boy who used to take everything apart and break it. I'd like to point out in my defence that, despite not having the faintest damn clue about electricity and a near terminal lack of patience with plastic, I occasionally managed to get things working again

Me too!

 

[Ulfwald]

When I was 3, I took aprt my grandmothers new toaster, and phone. My dad came in and saw the parts all over the floor. He went ballistic, ranting about how i would never be able to put them both back together again, because the parts were all jumbled together. He left and went to buy my grandmother a new toaster, while my mother used the other phone to call Southern Bell to come out and fix the phone.

By the time my dad got home with a new toaster, I had them both back together and working. That is when they decided that I needed an erector set, lego, lincoln logs, tinker toys. I then began taking other things apart. Mom's washing machine, dad's lawnmower, my brothers stereo. I built my own GI Joe Training center, complete with helipad, escape slide, etc.

I did not mess with electricity too much. but when I did, sparks and a blown fuse were usually the result.

 

[Lithium381]

ahhhh the memories!

 

[passivex]

I think there's a type of people like us...those who really *play* with the toys, not just follow instructions on how to make it work. I've got tons of motors, lights, rubber bands, and wheels in my toy box. Where I was, we didn't have Legos. Instead we had the larger but still cool Russian types.

My curiousity earned me a soldering iron at the tender age of 12 (my mom really should not have given it to me).

 

[Radiohead]

I turned my toaster into a Russian Nuclear Sub