Cheap Tat
OneEyedMonster remindes us about the crap you can buy in pound shops: "Batteries that lasted about an hour and then died. A screwdriver with a loose handle so I couldn't turn the damn screw, and a tape measure which wasn't at all accurate."
Similarly, my neighbour bought a lawnmower from Argos that was so cheap the wheels didn't go round, it sort of skidded over the grass whilst gently back-combing it.
What's the cheapest, most useless crap you've bought?
( , Fri 4 Jan 2008, 7:26)
OneEyedMonster remindes us about the crap you can buy in pound shops: "Batteries that lasted about an hour and then died. A screwdriver with a loose handle so I couldn't turn the damn screw, and a tape measure which wasn't at all accurate."
Similarly, my neighbour bought a lawnmower from Argos that was so cheap the wheels didn't go round, it sort of skidded over the grass whilst gently back-combing it.
What's the cheapest, most useless crap you've bought?
( , Fri 4 Jan 2008, 7:26)
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Magnets
Ahh, made the monitor screwy due to the magnet. Guessing it was cathode ray tube and not a shiny LCD then (remember messing with degauss buttons?).
Those torches apply a very neat trick by moving a magnet through a coil of wires, which causes current to flow in the wire. However, as mentioned above, it's not much current and the torches are shite.
( , Thu 10 Jan 2008, 1:49, Reply)
Ahh, made the monitor screwy due to the magnet. Guessing it was cathode ray tube and not a shiny LCD then (remember messing with degauss buttons?).
Those torches apply a very neat trick by moving a magnet through a coil of wires, which causes current to flow in the wire. However, as mentioned above, it's not much current and the torches are shite.
( , Thu 10 Jan 2008, 1:49, Reply)
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