DIY Electronics Plan source query

[john moorhead]

Folks -

I'm sure some of you dabble in 'lectronics.... are there any good souces for plans - schematics and the like for building a remote, auto blast gates or time delay for operating a dust collecting system?

I'd also like to build/find plans for a "crash switch" for a router table, TS, etc... One of the catalogs had something for 35 bucks, but it didn't amount to much.

OT - at one point I had come across plans for an "electromagnetic rifle" that used carefully timed and fired electromagnets along a soda straw - the barrel - to shoot a "steely" marble. No noise, nothing... of course they had dire warnings throughout and my bro in law said it would be considered a "manufactured weapon" and a felony... so it didn't get any farther.... Wild idea tho'

Thanks in advance for any help or leads...

John Moorhead

[Robert Bonomi]

some of those things are 'too simple' to have plans available.

an "auto blast gate" simply has a _switch_ attached, such that the switch is closed when the gate is open, and vice-versa.

The _simple_ way to get a time delay is to use a 'time delay relay' (no, I'm *not* kiddig!) Google on that phrase. "Amperite" is one of the better known manufacturers of relatively inexpensive ones. they don't handle a lot of power, so it's not uncommon to use one of them to control a 'power' relay (aka "contactor") that actually switches the 'load' on and off.

Wotsa a "crash switch"??

See "Nuts and Volts" magazine. somebody offers something along those lines -- as well as a bunch of other 'weird' gadgets -- in a regular ad.

[Wood Butcher]

Do a Google search on "rail gun". Same basic idea but much simpler implementation.

Art