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Coin shrinking with high voltage in slow motion

Jun 17th, 2009 by capitaladmin

Coin Shrinking from Jeremy Ruhland on Vimeo.

Check out Bert Hickman’s “Makin’ Small Change” and Shrinker Gallery

Discharging about 10 kV (15,000 joules!) from enormous 300 µF capacitors the team at Hackerbot Labs “Turn half dollars into quarters! Turn quarters into dimes! Turn dimes into little semi-molten balls of metal!” with their custom built apparatus through a process known as “Magnaforming”.  We would love to get a hold of some of these but can’t really make them in bulk… SO you can head over there to purchase “small” change…

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