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Originally Posted by Einar72
My dad bought one in '62, the Siamese cat. I had hours of fun bobbing the head. It was a tan plastic molding with fuzzy stuff glued on the outside. I suspect they used a static charge to get the stuff to stick straight out. Inside was a red-painted 1-inch diameter dowel about 5" long. The whole antenna was just two 1x4 aluminum strips stapled to the dowel about two inches apart, with a 1/2-watt resistor and the twinlead riveted to both plates. Dad was disappointed with its performance.
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They probably did use a charge. We used something like that in High School Shop class. I think it was called swaytek. Or maybe suede-tech. I doubt the same brand exists anymore. Thanks to google, I just found out I'm wrong. It does exist and it's called Suede-Tex flocking...
John
11-30-2009, 11:06 PM
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