[Shop-talk] Drilling through a spark plug to make a christmas ornament?

[Jim Franklin]

Love this idea, and I might have some non-resistors laying around.

We'll see if I can get the garage cleaned and lit in time, but this is rapidly becoming a 2019 project...

jim

> On Dec 14, 2018, at 3:19 PM, Richard George via Shop-talk <shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:
> 
> Hmmm....  along those lines I suppose you could also just solder an led between the center electrode and the side electrode and hook up a DC power supply - you'd need what, ~50V for a sparkplug with a 5K ohm resistance...  Trouble is I don' t know if the resistor in the sparkplug could dissipate that ~1/2 Watt of power...
> 
> :-P
> 
> Maybe giving up is a good idea
> 
> Best,
> 
> rkg
> 
> (Richard George)
> 
> On 12/14/2018 9:05 AM, Jim Franklin via Shop-talk wrote:
>>> On Dec 14, 2018, at 11:30 AM, Jeff Scarbrough <fishplate at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Why reinvent the wheel?  Just get a battery, a spare distributor, and
>>> some long plug wires.  Rig a motor to turn the distributor, and hang
>>> the plugs in the tree.  Don't forget to water it!
>>> 
>>> Jeff Scarbrough
>>> Flammable Acres,
>> :-D
>> 
>> I think I'll abandon this quest. It was a thought for an ex I'm still friends with. I might have done this while I was courting her and trying to impress. Now, not so much. :-)
>> 
>> jim
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