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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Kevin Tarr
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> I can see 4 computers from right here and they are all rivited power
> supplies. And over the years I've worked on a lot of computers,
> never seen a
> screwed in supply. Honest.
I've built all of my own for years, so perhaps that's why I've always had
cases where the power supply screws in.
> As far as safety, my first 'real' job ($5.80 an hour!) was fixing TVs and
> VCRs. The second week I was helping put a new CR tube in a tv, in the
> customer's house. We were pulling out the old CRT, and I stuck my
> finger in
> the hole where the flyback HV lead went. WOW! My elbow put a hole in the
> drywall and I hit a shelf that was full of nik-nacs. It shook
> very badly but
> nothing broke. The guy I was helping had been a friend for 7 years, he was
> laughing so hard he dropped the old CRT, obviously I wasn't holding it
> anymore, and broke the yoke off.
Ouch. I had a friend in elementary school whose father was working on a PhD
in EE or something that led them to have a lot of electrial gizmos. He was
forever making things like Jacobs Ladders -- and electrocuting himself.
Never got me, though. But I've felt a high-voltage (low-current, thank
goodness) shock from a car distributor. Yipes.
Nick
