What’s those balls on the plate?
DIY 4th of July
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Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Either magnets or ball bearings. Most probably the magnets.
sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social 18 hours ago
Don't try this at home.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Try it outside in your backyard.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 minutes ago
try it in your neighbor’s backyard, the one without a camera? there. for deniability.
pitaya@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Make the foil spiky to be on the
safeside
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Comically enough, many spoons of out in the microwave would be fine. Not recommending you try it, but if the issue comes from arcs. And spoons don’t have areas where arcs can occur naturally, like a fork.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
That depends on the condition of the nickel plating. Scratched up cheap stainless would probably arc.
potoo22@programming.dev 17 hours ago
To my understanding, the arcing is caused by hard edges. E.g. all the elections could be at the end of a fork’s tines, and EM field forces them to jump to another tine instead of going through the root of the fork.
Since spoons are rounded, they don’t need to jump. I don’t think the material plays much of a role in arcing other than providing resistance. They would heat up, but they’d melt before they arc. Still, they can arc from one spoon to another spoon when there multiple spoons close enough.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I’m lazy and don’t use tik tok, but from what I’ve seen when my spouse is on there this would make an interesting tik tok channel (is that what they are called?). Spoon Spark, where someone collects a shit ton of spoons and people take their guess on whether or not they’ll spark or even start a fire. Maybe get different power levels of microwaves to increase to throughout the tournament.
The E-Waste Arc Spark competition.
olafurp@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
youtu.be/OyTmJX_TC84 Here’s a YouTube video of a guy actively trying to make arcs.
Agent641@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I microwave my coffee with a spoon in it every morning at work, it’s fine
toynbee@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
youtu.be/OyTmJX_TC84
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yeah I know it uses waves towards the center but the are throughout the microwave, yet no one questions the holes in the metal siding, which are metal circles. So if arcing was an issue on smooth sutfaces, it should happen there as well.
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kameecoding@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yep, I have microwaved plenty of tea and coffee with the spoon in it.
potoo22@programming.dev 17 hours ago
The contact points between the spoons will heat up and may melt or spark.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
You mean like a spoon on a glass or ceramic plate? That seems unlikely.
There is even companies that make glass/stainless steel lids for their microwave safe containers. So the kids won’t warp like the plastic ones do and have to be thrown away
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