Nope, you're sure not. My Radio Electronics instructor tired of people fiddling with things on his desk in the lab and set a charged can capacitor on it. It wasn't long before we heard the yelp and then the laughter from Mr. Cannon! No! It wasn't me. Of course, that was the early 60's, you'd get sued for such fun nowadays!
Reminds me of another incident when I was in high school. Used to have a neighbourhood kid would come over to the house and pester me. I had to tolerate him because his mother and my mother were good friends and co-workers. He would fiddle with stuff on my workbench, and he loved to pick up my roll of solder and chew on the end of the wire. I suppose lead poisoning takes a long time to show any noticeable effect.
It finally occurred to me a way to cure him of the problem. One day when I saw him coming, I quietly substituted a roll of acid core solder for my normal roll of rosin core. Sure enough, it wasn't long until he picked it up and put the end of the wire in his mouth. I don't have to explain what happened next. I told him that I had switched to a "new brand" of solder, and from now on it would always be like that because that brand worked much better than my "old" solder.
Needless to say, he never chewed on my solder again. Don k4kyv ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
