[nat]

I have been in charge of the move from our old facility to our new one, so I have been scrounging and scavenging in the left over stuff. I found this bitchen Pyrex bell jar. It is 12" across and 18" tall.

What should I use it for? The ideas I have come up with so far: an aquarium, terrerium, cloud chamber......... What do you guys think?







Its my son (7) holding the tape. He loves it too of course

[AATLAS1X]

Thats a huge crack vile!!

Seriously..............I would have or build a base mabe out of glass with 3 large glass balls as the feet. Then put some cool marbles, cool plant and a cool fish.

[LandCruiserPhil]

Jacobs ladder

[Jman]

Terrarium or Jacobs Ladder would both be cool.

[rusty_tlc]

Get a vacuum pump and make stuff boil at room temp.

Boyles law don't you know.

[Junk]

target

[92LC_good2go]

Why not put a glass plate underneath it, one that's larger in diameter than the jar opening. Put a nice tropical plant in a pretty pot on the plate, and seal the jar with some petroleum jelly along the jar base edge, when you set the jar lid down onto the plate.
Instant beautiful tropical terrarium. Easy, fast, not necessarily very expensive. Quick and easy to change plants.
But remember to open it for a while, to get fresh air in there - maybe once a week or so!






You can't use it to enclose a Jacob's ladder, unless you add a perforated glass plate on the bottom thru which the wires/electrodes must pass, as your bell jar has no valve on its top.

Why not just do like my hubby does, with his 25KV Jacob's ladder, and use it out in the open? Why bother to enclose it under glass? Just live a little dangerously...

Hubby will happily watch stupid people play with his open Jacob's ladder.
Did I say it's 25KV?



Alternatively, you could use it for .........

a space helmet for a grossly misshapen elongated small head.

or to keep an elf, or a fairy, prisoner.

[UNO_RACING]

Use it as a green house to grow the best home grown majuarana plant!

[monniepoo]

Drill a hole in it, attach a glass plate to it, turn it upside down and put a candle in it with some sea glass

[CodyRx7]

Its clearly a space helmet.

[nick]

Originally Posted by CodyRx7

Its clearly a space helmet.

......for Homer Simpson

[semlin]

put a brain in it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_f...brains_in_jars

[SteveO]

Definitely go with a human head, Futurama style.

[nat]

Originally Posted by LandCruiserPhil

Jacobs ladder

Originally Posted by Jman

Terrarium or Jacobs Ladder would both be cool.

I hadn't considered a Jacobs Ladder..............that would be cool too

[LK1]

A Bong!

[nat]

Originally Posted by rusty_tlc

Get a vacuum pump and make stuff boil at room temp.

Boyles law don't you know.

I do have a little Welch pump at work I could borrow to do some stuff with.

[92LC_good2go]

Originally Posted by nat

I hadn't considered a Jacobs Ladder..............that would be cool too

But, like I said, you'd have to perforate/drill it, or do that to a glass plate to put under it. For the wiring to pass through.

[nat]

Originally Posted by UNO_RACING

Use it as a green house to grow the best home grown majuarana plant!

Originally Posted by LK1

A Bong!

Now that's good thinking

[nat]

Originally Posted by 92LC_good2go

But, like I said, you'd have to perforate/drill it, or do that to a glass plate to put under it. For the wiring to pass through.

I could easily create some sort of feedthru, it would be a fun project to do my my son.

[92LC_good2go]

Originally Posted by nat

Now that's good thinking

double duty?