Capacitor? Is that one of those newfangle electrical things, sort of
like a condenser?
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From: Dan Beeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:51:10 -0400
Subject: RE: RE: FW: [Hornlist] Quick question about cleaning...
<I know what paraffin is you header. I was wondering where one can
purchase
wax paper
I apologize ahead of time for the long post.
I am not surprised you don't know where to find wax paper. It is going
the
way of dinosaurs. Our world is changing too quickly and us "older"
folks do
not want it to change so we pretend it is still the same even if we
know
better. Just because it worked yesterday doesn't mean it is the same
thing
or that it will work tomorrow (or even today).
I work in a physics department at a large university. Everyone here is
at
least a hundred years old (I exagerate only slightly). We have one lab
experiment where students make capacitors out of wax paper and tin
foil.
(Don't ask what a capacitor is as I will then have to write an even
longer
post and I will miss playing my horn.) The lab experiment is almost as
old
as the professors. I am only half as old but I do remember tin foil
and wax
paper. So I go off to find some. I need twenty rolls of each. I go to
many
stores. No tin foil to be had. Lots of aluminum foil though. That
works well
enough. But wax paper? That was tougher. You see what we generically
call
wax paper is a thin sheet of paper coated with wax. It is now more
appropriately called "wrapping or butcher" paper because there is no
longer
wax on it. Today some kind of plastic like spray is used for the
coating. It
does not work so good for the experiment. Finally I go to an older
grocery
store in the more ecclectic part of town. They have a case of wax
paper in a
strange brand on the bottom shelf. I think it is left over from the
Great
War. It is coated in a layer of dust. It works fine. We will always
have the
experiment so someday I know I will have to make wax paper as I will no
longer be able to buy it. I hope I will be also over a hundred years
old,
and retired, before that happens.
Our elementary science teacher wants to make resistors out of graphite
pencil leads. I tell her that clay is now used in pencils, not
graphite. It
works for what she wants so she still insists on telling her students
to use
graphite pencil leads for that experiment.
Finally, one of the professors complains because an experiment doesn't
work
that uses Saran Wrap (we always buy Saran brand Wrap) because generic
plastic wrap doesn't work. I find Saran has changed their formula so
now we
use Cling brand plastic wrap.
Animal Horns, natural horns, inventionshorns, double and triple horns.
Not
the same things but they all make great music.
To wax poetic, everyday is a different day, our world is constantly
changing
but the joy of good music, well played remains.
Dan Beeker
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