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Old 05-24-2006, 01:50 PM
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I was just talking to a co-worker about roller skating and I as reflecting on a roller skate "mod" I did back in ... 1983 or so.

My youthful (5th/6th grade) desire to be creative and cool, I had taped a single AA battery under each of my skates. I scavanged two little light bulbs from my HO-train set houses and taped them to the skates.

When the skating rink turned the lights down for slow songs, I would tape the ends of the wires to the bulbs to each end of the skates and I would have a little light under thereas I skated around.

The other kids made fun of me, until they saw it ... and then they all wanted to know how to do it!

Little did I know at that time, I invented the under body glow kit!
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Damn ricers!
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Re: Darn it ... I should have patented it!

Rice. Making its way to a skating rink near you!
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Re: Darn it ... I should have patented it!

so just the single AA battery can power a light bulb? ... I got a few ideas just not sure for the wires.
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Re: Darn it ... I should have patented it!

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so just the single AA battery can power a light bulb?
Not a full-sized bulb ... a TINY little light for a scale train set.
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Re: Darn it ... I should have patented it!

lol. You could be known as "King of Rice" had you followed through.
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Is i wrong for me to all of a sudden want to do that to my skates?
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Re: Darn it ... I should have patented it!

Mabey if you were 20 years younger , but really that would be cool, post a video of you hanging onto the back of your GTO doing it. Id give you a cookie. Really.
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LED + Watch Batteries FTW!
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Re: Darn it ... I should have patented it!

and put a Cadnium Diode in there to so they automatically come on when the lights go out, and a switch so you can turn them off.

SHWATE!

we should patent hat idea and sell it on infomercials for $19.99 + $20 s&h on Nick and Cartoon Network!!
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theres a reason Rice has Ice in it...
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Is i wrong for me to all of a sudden want to do that to my skates?
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I wonder if I could do that with a pedal bike
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