--- In [email protected], cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Shocks by gazbo (4.00 / 2) #1 Wed May 25, 2005 at 05:47:33 AM EST > I get static all the time - must be my shoes. But most seriously, I > used to work at a laser toner factory - taking enormous sacks of > toner and dispensing it into refill bottles. > This stuff got fucking everywhere. One of the machine types involved > filling a massive barrel with toner, fitting the huge dispensing > nozzle, then pressing a button that made the machine hoist it while > inverting it, ready to be locked in position. > > The genius who was working on one of those machines did all of the > above steps, except for putting the dispensing nozzle on. A 100Kg > barrel of toner emptied on the floor. That is irrelevant to the > story, but funny. > > Anyway. At the end of each day, all of this toner needed vacuuming > up. Imagine the PD you can get by vacuuming up kilos of laser toner - > I would get sparks coming off me that were up to 12" long. It was > fun to start, but after a while you kinda start to fear it. In fact, > to this day, I really hate the anticipation of static shocks. > > Tip: if you do need to discharge a huge static buildup, get someone > to chuck you (literally) a length of metal. Maybe your keys would > work, thinking about it. Discharge through the metal and you'll not > feel a thing, presumably because the discharge from your hand is no > longer concentrated on a single point. > > When I was a kid (8?) I was changing a lightbulb in an angle-poise > lamp. I saw the two contacts, and scientific curiosity got the > better of me; I turned it on, and stuck my fingers on the contacts. > I remember being thrown backwards, and it feeling like being punched > in the arm repeatedly (presumably 50 times per second). Some would > claim that explains a lot. > > I did my best to kill myself and 2 other people when I worked as a > cleaner at Sainsbury's. I was using the big single-brush floor > scrubber - now these things are kinda cool, because they are > uncontrollable monsters to even the biggest men, yet after practice > you can exhibit precision control with a thumb and little finger > only. This obviously led the way to great show-off skills. > > One of the games I played was to stand on the machine and turn it on, > thus creating an impromptue roundabout. I did this once when the > entire floor was drenched in water (when else would you use such a > machine?) and the cable got caught underneath and severed. Did I > mention this plugged into the 440v outlet? > > Thank God for fuses - I'd have hated that one to go on my epitath and > those of the people in the room with me. > > I think that's enough. My other electrocution stories aren't as good. > > ++++ I have an acquaintence near here that said that standing under overhead wires bothered him ever since he got hit by lightening (personaly)- otherwise he seems to be ok. I once witnessed an electrician friend with his finger in a light socket that couldnt tell if the power was on or not when I turned the switch on. The electricity is different for different people it looks like. N.
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