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Doki - 16 Jul 2004 19:12 GMT

I've just found a 12V Bubble machine on the interweb. All I need now is ?30
that I don't want to spend on bike bits and a fag lighter adaptor, and a big
magnet to stick to the roof.

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Vamp - 16 Jul 2004 20:41 GMT

> I've just found a 12V Bubble machine on the interweb. All I need now is ?30
> that I don't want to spend on bike bits and a fag lighter adaptor, and a big
> magnet to stick to the roof.

ever seen the program on MTV base called pimp my ride? no well if you did you'd of seen the bubble
machine installed on the back bumper :)

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Pete M - 16 Jul 2004 20:43 GMT

In news:2lqk4uFfe0ksU1@uni-berlin.de,
Doki <doki@spamtroNspidar.com> decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with
a rant as follows

> I've just found a 12V Bubble machine on the interweb. All I need now
> is ?30 that I don't want to spend on bike bits and a fag lighter
> adaptor, and a big magnet to stick to the roof.

We've got two in the Excursion :-P

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Peter Hill - 17 Jul 2004 11:20 GMT

>In news:2lqk4uFfe0ksU1@uni-berlin.de,
>Doki <doki@spamtroNspidar.com> decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
>We've got two in the Excursion :-P

What fag lighters, magnets or roofs? I've got three fag lighter
sockets.

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Pete M - 17 Jul 2004 15:33 GMT

In news:78vhf0lb60fqn8t7ofs72olgmisu6q690j@4ax.com,
Peter Hill <peter.usenet1@nospam.demon.co.uk> decided to enlighten our
sheltered souls with a rant as follows

>> In news:2lqk4uFfe0ksU1@uni-berlin.de,
>> Doki <doki@spamtroNspidar.com> decided to enlighten our sheltered
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> What fag lighters, magnets or roofs? I've got three fag lighter
> sockets.

Only three? Sheesh, you need an Excursion you do...

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Questions@quickwatchsales.com - 17 Jul 2004 13:07 GMT

>In news:2lqk4uFfe0ksU1@uni-berlin.de,
>Doki <doki@spamtroNspidar.com> decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
>We've got two in the Excursion :-P

Only got the one bubble machine here, but it is mechanically driven via a shaft
from the rear diff so is several times as powerful as an electric one,
providing the car is going along.

It doesn't work at all in traffic, though.

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Chris B - 17 Jul 2004 18:53 GMT

> I've just found a 12V Bubble machine on the interweb. All I need now is ?30
> that I don't want to spend on bike bits and a fag lighter adaptor, and a big
> magnet to stick to the roof.

I would pay you money if you got masses of bubbles to come out of the
exhaust pipe.

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MeatballTurbo - 19 Jul 2004 15:00 GMT

> > I've just found a 12V Bubble machine on the interweb. All I need now is
> £30
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> I would pay you money if you got masses of bubbles to come out of the
> exhaust pipe.

that wouldn't be so difficult to do.

A bolt on tailpipe tip with a small pipe leading into it, and wire ring
inside the tail pipe, plus an old washer pump linked to a reservour of
bubble mix should do it.

Pump the mix over the ring, and let the exhaust gas fill each one..

Any thoughts on whether it might work?

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Chris B - 19 Jul 2004 20:19 GMT

> > I would pay you money if you got masses of bubbles to come out of the
> > exhaust pipe.
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
> Pump the mix over the ring, and let the exhaust gas fill each one..

That would be seriously funny driving down the road. Exhaust gas encased in
bubbles!!
Like I said. I'd pay money to see that! Not much though, I'm a very poor man
(cue violins).

> Any thoughts on whether it might work?

I don't know if heat or the velocity of the exhaust gases might cause a
problem. I guess you'd need some sorta 'super-duper bubble mix'. Maybe they
sell it on eBay ;)

Chris.

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MeatballTurbo - 19 Jul 2004 23:20 GMT

> I don't know if heat or the velocity of the exhaust gases might cause a
> problem. I guess you'd need some sorta 'super-duper bubble mix'. Maybe they
> sell it on eBay ;)

Just something a bit thicker like super bargain basement bubble bath or
shampoo probably.

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Chris B - 20 Jul 2004 04:22 GMT

> > I don't know if heat or the velocity of the exhaust gases might cause a
> > problem. I guess you'd need some sorta 'super-duper bubble mix'. Maybe they
> > sell it on eBay ;)
> >
> Just something a bit thicker like super bargain basement bubble bath or
> shampoo probably.

Yeah, I was joking about the eBay thing - thinking about that snake oil ;)

I wanna see a car with bubbles for the exhaust!!! I wonder what they'd think
in the emissions test? ;)

Chris.

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MeatballTurbo - 20 Jul 2004 07:13 GMT

> > > I don't know if heat or the velocity of the exhaust gases might cause a
> > > problem. I guess you'd need some sorta 'super-duper bubble mix'. Maybe
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>
> Chris.

Just have a nice switch to operate the pump.

I'm seriously thinking about putting together something like this for a
knock about test. Wonder if there is a market for it? "Safer and more
fun than a flamer, legal too" sort of thing. Could be really funny in a
nice WRC or drag car replica, engine roaring, tyres smoking, stream of
bubbles coming out of the exhaust. ;)

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Chris B - 20 Jul 2004 17:53 GMT

> > > > I don't know if heat or the velocity of the exhaust gases might cause a
> > > > problem. I guess you'd need some sorta 'super-duper bubble mix'. Maybe
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> nice WRC or drag car replica, engine roaring, tyres smoking, stream of
> bubbles coming out of the exhaust. ;)

That would be a laugh. How would you get the bubbles to form? Maybe a wheel
of some sort with large holes drilled in it, half submerged in a reservoir
of bubble bath strapped under the exhaust pipe? That way, the wheel could
spin around, forming bubbles in the holes and then letting em go when they
get up by the exhaust.

You got me thinking now...

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MeatballTurbo - 20 Jul 2004 20:14 GMT

In article <cdjim4$brt$1@hercules.btinternet.com>,
chrisNO@SPAMdentalserve.net spouted forth into
uk.rec.cars.modifications...

> > > > In article <W8VKc.3465$1y1.33934364@news-text.cableinet.net>,
> > > > lord_waymaster@yahoo.com spouted forth into
[quoted text clipped - 34 lines]
>
> You got me thinking now...

Just use a bus or wagon washer pump and some nice thick bubble mix with
a look of wire loop in the end of the tube.

As it pumps up the washer fluid, it will stretch as a skin over the loop
hopefully, and then the gasses will inflate it. Might only work on idle
though otherwise the gases would be going too fast. Hmmm.

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