Thread: New Use for my Dremel

Holy snapping duck crap Batman!!!

How much liquor did it take?

You're the best! This beats Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean, helping himself in the dentist's chair! Great, truly great!

All the best from Holland!

gerhard

I've got an angle grinder you can borrow .....if you get appendicitis.

I have trouble just diging out a splinter. You're a better man than me.
Regards
John

Originally Posted by RedShirtGuy

Holy snapping duck crap Batman!!!

How much liquor did it take?

They breed us tuff in Derby.... The toughest part was doing it in the mirror. I have the unfortunate inablity to get the left brain - right brain thing going when I do so. Gotta turn away to part my hair or shave with a razor blade.....confused. Why can't mirrors reflect a face the right way around...??? The ol' molar got a tad warmish too until i worked out the right speed (lowest) and pressure (not a lot) to apply.

Originally Posted by underfoot

I've got an angle grinder you can borrow .....if you get appendicitis.

I think that's what they used on me when i was 12 with peritonitis.....the scar is about 100mm long - funny that...same size as an angle grinder...

Sent ashiver down the spine reading that!

great yarn all the same!!

Hope you suffer from dry mouth syndrome or have a cordless dremel, otherwise you just stuffed a live, running, arcing 240V motor into your damp mouth. Not highly recommended, I suggest.

Hey Sheddie!

you talked about wishing to see your face in mirrors like others see it. There is a way to do that. Take two mirrors and put them upright, with a 90 degree inner angle. Fix them together with sticky tape round the back in order for them to remaining standing up by themselves, to keep your hands free. Go stand before them and look straight in the middle of the 90 degree edge, with both mirrors in symmetric 45 degree position. When you don't believe the result right away, put a spot of something one one cheek (marmelade, peanut butter, anything that can be removed easily) and the mirror will show the spot on the other side, contrary to what regular mirrors show you.

This nifty crossover-trick is borrowed from the pentaprism used in SLR-cameras, that is there for this very reason, because without that gadget you would see the things you wanted to shoot in mirror image through the viewfinder.

While playing around with this alternative miror, you may find that following your hand movements in the mirror, may be harder still than it would be in a regular mirror. So this may not be very much help for your original query, but it's a funny trick nonetheless.

As you know, regular mirrors have their smooth mirroring coating at the back of the glass plate, with the coating being protected from scratching or corrosion by a paint layer. So the light has to penetrate the glass before the coating bounces it back again through the glass for the second time before the mirror image is presented to you. When standing right in front of a mirror, this bouncing through the glass two times is in a perfect 90 degree fashion, so you see no side effects. But with these two mirrors in 45 degrees, the light hits on and bounces off the coating at a 45 degree angle four times and passes through the mirror glass four times. You therefore see a vague repeat image from the front glass surfaces, slightly set off from the original image as bounced back by the coating at the back of the glass. Should you want optical perfection, use mirrors with their polished coating in front of the glass instead of at the back. Such mirrors can be found in discarded photocopiers, altough their size is often a bit disappointing.

have fun!

gerhard

wow, that is just really scary to think about, but if it worked...

Originally Posted by gerhard

Hey Sheddie!

you talked about wishing to see your face in mirrors like others see it. There is a way to do that. Take two mirrors and put them upright, with a 90 degree inner angle. Fix them together with sticky tape round the back in order for them to remaining standing up by themselves, to keep your hands free. Go stand before them and look straight in the middle of the 90 degree edge, with both mirrors in symmetric 45 degree position. When you don't believe the result right away, put a spot of something one one cheek (marmelade, peanut butter, anything that can be removed easily) and the mirror will show the spot on the other side, contrary to what regular mirrors show you.

This nifty crossover-trick is borrowed from the pentaprism used in SLR-cameras, that is there for this very reason, because without that gadget you would see the things you wanted to shoot in mirror image through the viewfinder.

While playing around with this alternative miror, you may find that following your hand movements in the mirror, may be harder still than it would be in a regular mirror. So this may not be very much help for your original query, but it's a funny trick nonetheless.

As you know, regular mirrors have their smooth mirroring coating at the back of the glass plate, with the coating being protected from scratching or corrosion by a paint layer. So the light has to penetrate the glass before the coating bounces it back again through the glass for the second time before the mirror image is presented to you. When standing right in front of a mirror, this bouncing through the glass two times is in a perfect 90 degree fashion, so you see no side effects. But with these two mirrors in 45 degrees, the light hits on and bounces off the coating at a 45 degree angle four times and passes through the mirror glass four times. You therefore see a vague repeat image from the front glass surfaces, slightly set off from the original image as bounced back by the coating at the back of the glass. Should you want optical perfection, use mirrors with their polished coating in front of the glass instead of at the back. Such mirrors can be found in discarded photocopiers, altough their size is often a bit disappointing.

have fun!

gerhard

verrryy interesting Gerhard. If they used this in cars as rear view mirrors there'd be no need to paint AMBULANCE in reverse on the front of ambulances.

Originally Posted by malb

Hope you suffer from dry mouth syndrome or have a cordless dremel, otherwise you just stuffed a live, running, arcing 240V motor into your damp mouth. Not highly recommended, I suggest.

I have the long flexible attachment.The motor was nowhere near my gob mate.

I hope you went, "aahhhh", and kept your tongue right out of the way.

Next up a bit of root canal therapy? :insert shudder icon: The smell of burning gum, been there in the chair before and I think to my self, "why can I see smoke coming out of my mouth?!"