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From: jeffw@midas.WR.TEK.COM (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Stereo Amplifier Jamming
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Date: 28 Aug 90 22:57:56 GMT
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Disclaimer: I've never tried this, you can kill yourself with it, and you
never heard of me if it causes you trouble.

A co-worker told me once what he did about someone who played his stereo
too loud in the room above him. He wound a bunch of lamp cord around his
room at ceiling level. One end was connected through a 100W lamp to the hot
side of the line. The other end went to a wooden-handled file, and he had
another wooden-handled file connected to the neutral side of the line. When
the music got too much, he went scratch scratch scratch with the files
rubbing against each other, and got a horrible noise you can probably
imagine to come out on the guy's speakers. "Damn, there's that intermittent
again!"

You can adapt this in obvious ways to rooms on different sides of yours.
Of course, parallel coils tend to induce better than perpendicular ones.

Don't forget the lamp or you'll add fire danger to electrocution danger.

							Jeff Winslow