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Open the bomb bay door, Hal. |
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There is a whole section of cool light switch conversions on thingiverse. My favorite ones are the old Frankenstein handle switches. |
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I like the switch looks, but maybe I'm missing something. How is this a halfbakery idea? |
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It would be a visual design thing. Room light switches have a particular look, putting end of the world nuclear launch switches in their place seems pretty half-baked. |
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Got a link 2fries? I'd love to see that. |
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I'd love my house to have nothing but beautiful historical switches for everything. |
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Here's the HB idea. These are peel and stick RETROFIT things that you just stick onto existing switches so you have no need to do any rewiring!! |
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Hey, suddenly this went from kind of silly to kind of plausible. I'd love a B-52 bomb bay door switch on the bathroom fart fan but not enough to actually re-wire it. Peel and stick over an existing switch for ten bucks each? Yea, I'd actually buy that. |
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For my man cave office and garage only though, don't think the wife would be too enamored with the look. |
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What [21] said. edit: Put the HB idea into the idea section to receive my pastry. Something something ill-advised advice to ignore what your wife wants. |
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Sure, I'll change the category, these are decorations more than light controls. Suggestion? |
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Oh wow! Totally done with the Igor "IT''S ALIVE!!" switch!! |
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public: architecture: feature |
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Generally, I'm enthusiastic. At several points in life I've considered interesting switches. Guarded switches for guitar amps, key switches for computers etc. They were always prohibitively expensive (at least to a younger me) from the usual suppliers (Grainger/Digikey etc.). |
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As a 15yo, I did some work experience with the RAF Tornado maintenance flight at RAF Cottesmore. Because the capability was being handled entirely by the Navy, they were removing the switch panels from the GR1 Tornados that controlled nuclear bomb drops. I mentioned how cool it would be to have one, the guy supervising me said something like "It's obviously completely illegal to take anything like this, but they won't be counted and as the overall alert status is low - no one can remember the last time anyone was searched, anyway, I'm going for an early tea break..." I was either too naive or too goody-goody to take the hint. Shame. Still, even a 0.01% of having a work experience report that said: "great attitude and enthusiasm, but did steal components of Britain's nuclear deterrent system" wouldn't look good on subsequent job applications. |
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Your secret would have been safe with us, a simple bun would have ensured our silence. |
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That being said, probably best to follow any and every rule in an instruction manual with the word "nuclear" on the cover. |
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