🚀 go-pugleaf

  When I was a wee one I had this car set.  Since I had  the 
the concept that there was a transformer in the system
that setepped down the vultage to my car track I had an IDEA.
"what fools are these toymakers ... if they just got rid
of the transformer ( and stop charging the extra) my cars
would go wayyy faster".  So I decided to test my theory (budding 
electricel engineer ) so after removing one of those little
dc motors and attaching stripped down wire paper ties ( i had no real wire)
I proceeded to stick this thing into the AC outlet.  WOW did that motor
run fast zeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.   Since I was holding the motor in
my hands i got the full shock, burned out the fuses and my poor little motor
just fried.   Beter to run fast and die young .......


 Then in high school in my electrical class I found this really big coil.
it just so happened that I also found a nice peice of metal which slid
nicely back and forth in the coil ( this was one mother of a solenoid).
So I attached this thing to a 500 volt line without thinking where i 
aimed the thing. Fliped the switch. BANG. Blew out the fuses and the
coil kicked accross the table. I found the metal peice imbeded in my 
lab partners geometry kit 6 feet away.  Everything in the kit was destroyed.
My partner was not amused. Had he been leaning forward a few inches more
he'd have been TOAST .  A biger version would have worked great in SDI. 


And then there was the time ......