Making a Newton's Cradle

[martop]

Medicine balls and paint faces on them, maybe faces of inspectors ?

Though sad to say, the way things are going you may be stuck for a safe idea :-(

-- Mart

[geoff]

In message , TMC writes

No, it comes down to elasticity

I'll never forget reading "steel is 1000 times more elastic than rubber if you can find something hard enough to bounce it off" or something like that - well, half forget

I read it in a marvel comic - spiderman or something, in the days before my memory began to fade

[Adrian C]

Heh, I know the place you mean, I've travelled over the top of that same lift!!

There is also one here, local to me. ;-)

Paternoster at Northwick Park Hospital

on the lift, the video shows a couple of reasuring signs

"DON'T PANIC! Further Travel is not dangerous Stand Still to rear of the car And you will be transferred _upside_ to level 9"

Presumably "upside" to confirm not upsidedown ...

Tour of lifts at Northwick Park Hospital - Lots of old Otis lifts

nose "LiftSpotters" :-)

[geoff]

In message , Matty F writes

Easy - just put razor wire round it so they can't get near

[Adrian C]

It's also a bit famous ...

taken out of service in 2001.

[geoff]

Or Ben Wa even, Adam prolly has some stashed away

[geoff]

They'd veer off to one side or other, wouldn't they

[Matty F]

The whole point of the device is to entertain children and any adults with Aspergers.

[geoff]

OK - I'll do one of those stupid smileys next time ...

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "dennis@home" saying something like:

No matter how safe, some idiot will get seriously injured through lack of common sense.

[Andrew Gabriel]

The paternoster is at the back of the building.

I frequently visited the back of the building during 1980's. In 1990's I worked at the front of the building and hardly ever went to the back (I think it was largely empty by then, with GEC shrinking fast). I left in 1995.

At the front was the main computer room, or sometimes called the main showroom (and that dated right back to Elliott Brothers). Being just up the road from Elstree Studios, we quite often had film crews come in to film a scene in a computer room. Sometimes they would want something special, such as a row of 1/2" reel tape drives all moving in sync, and one of us spent a day with them, knocking up special programs to make it happen. Although we had plenty of modern terminals in the computer room, often they'd want older ones such as ASR33 teletypes, so we kept some in a cupboard.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] (Andrew Gabriel) saying something like:

That's the one - where this horrible block of flats is now. url:

[dennis]

No more so than they would exiting their house's doors.

[Andy Dingley]

It's safer to go "under" rather than "over". Under dangles, over can flop around a bit. Probably safe, but disconcerting.

There's also the risk that guarding of the works is far less restrictive at top & bottom than it is in the intended lift area.

Wikipedia is worth a look for Paternosters. Seems they were quite popular in Eastern Germany.

(An unsubstantiable rumour has it that the record for Paternoster riding is held by a drunken Oxford student who was left asleep in one for several hours...)

[Adrian C]

I found the link at the bottom of the paternoster wikipedia page, surprised me too!

Worked there for only a year as a Lab Tech (moved up from Wembley HRC) and funnily enough also left in 1995. Faint memories of messing about with large format (A0) inkjet printers in one of the computer rooms, and watching another member of staff print out massive pictures of her kids just to take home - one of her 'perks'. :-)

[Adrian C]

Like this?

[whisky-dave]

But what if the balls containted this

then we could have some filled with merury.

Hours of fun.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "dennis@home" saying something like:

Dangerous things, doors.