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Hey folks! Before I pay full pop for a device I may only need once or twice a year I thought I'd post here. That old electro pounce in the corner gathering dust...give me a price on it! Also...I seem to remember someone once telling me that the electric shops would make their own machine. Any knowledge on that? C'mon...one dinasaur to another! byrdarts
-------------------- John Byrd Ball Ground, Georgia 770-735-6874 http://johnbyrddesign.com so happy I gotta sit on both my hands to keep from wavin' at everybody! Posts: 741 | From: Ball Ground, Georgia, USA | Registered: May 1999
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Hey John, I just replaced mine from 1979. I heard you can take an electric train power source with a variable switch on it. One to ground and one to tip of a nail.
-------------------- John Arnott El Cajon CA 619 596-9989 signgraphics1@aol.com http://www.signgraphics1.com Posts: 1443 | From: El Cajon CA usa | Registered: Dec 1998
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I'll tell you how to build your own. I've got one of these and also a real king daddy size, bought "Electo-Pounce". My home made one works just as well.
1. Get a pull chain window neon window transformer (5000 volts or so) from your junk pile. Old beer sign transformers work good. Or buy a new one for $35. Don't use a electronic (new style) it won't work. 2. Mount on side of your easel 3. Run a ground wire to the sheet metal surface on your easel. 4. Cut off one secondary GTO lead short, and screw on a red wire nut to protect it from shocking you. 5. Extend the other lead to a length that will allow you to reach to the other end of your easel with some additional slack. 6. Get a cheap stick BIC pen and slide the guts out of it and discard the guts. 7. Stop by the welding store, or by your welder friend and get a couple pieces of tungsten that any heli-arcer would have laying around.Probably a couple of bucks each. 8. Shove tungsten into one end of BIC pen, and the GTO from the transformer in the other end. Make sure gto and tungsten are touching inside. 9. Let the tungsten protrude a little. Maybe crush bic end on this side before hand to help capture tungsten. 10. Use black tape on gto end to prevent lead from pulling out. 11. Turn on transformer and pounce like a mother.
Arklie Hooten Pioneer Sign Company Up in the Mountains of East Tennessee
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Thanks for the info! That's about what what I thought I remembered hearing but have sprayed alot of oil based paint since then so thought I ought to check! And thank YOU Mr. Hulsey but I KNOW when I got to your place you'd have that thing dangling from a sky hook or something and make me climb up there after it!
-------------------- John Byrd Ball Ground, Georgia 770-735-6874 http://johnbyrddesign.com so happy I gotta sit on both my hands to keep from wavin' at everybody! Posts: 741 | From: Ball Ground, Georgia, USA | Registered: May 1999
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Nonody "Needs" an electro pounce...ya gotta "want" one.
After working in shops that "swore" (literally) by them and being knocked silly from everything from spilled coffee to grafite on the edge of a yard stick...I've started fires (unintentionally) with turpentine soaked paper and even seen em burn themselves down.
Nope give me a pounce wheel and piece of naugahide everytime!
And for those of you that are in love with them "god bless ya'll"
-------------------- "Werks fer me...it'll werk fer you"
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Monte, I was the young apprentice in a shop of guys that all had those bumps on the first digit of the middle finger from years of running pounce wheels. I had one also. Everyone laughed at me when I bought a machine to perforate patterns. Well, I sustained the ridicule and one by one all in that shop tried it and gravitated toward it.
Today I do most of my pounce patterns with mt Graphtec!
-------------------- The SignShop Mendocino, California
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6714 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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