I suspect he will never do that again.
On 02/23/2012 06:43 PM, Peter Fraser wrote:
An old buddy of mine grew up on a farm. When he was about 10 he decided to pee
on the exposed spark plug of a running pump motor, which sparked his pump quite
well, and quite painfully.
Sent from my iPhone
-- Peter
pjfra...@mac.com
On Feb 23, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Don Dellmann<don.dellm...@prodigy.net> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich"<rich-m...@octoxol.com>
To: "Antique Phonograph List"<phono-l@oldcrank.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Does anyone know how to make a Jones Motrola _safe_?
I believe I mentioned that here previously, I suspect that it was ignored
though.
On 02/23/2012 03:56 AM, Jim Nichol wrote:
That sounds like a brilliant guy. I was just in a course about electrical
safety last week. The voltage that kills the most people is 120 VAC.
Jim
On Feb 23, 2012, at 4:44 AM, DanKj wrote:
This discussion reminded me of a situation here, a few years back: The power company replaced
the wires from my house to the pole, and a few months later, I happened to touch the metal pipe
through which the wires ran to my meter in the cellar. ZAP! The pipe had never been attached
to the meter box or my fuse/breaker box, both of which were grounded (after I grounded them -
NOTHING was grounded when I moved in here!) ... Anyway, I called the company to have the thing
repaired, as it was obvious that the live conductor was touching the pipe at the top. They sent
Vern& Ernest, I swear. Even after I demonstrated the problem by lighting-up a 100W bulb
between the pipe and a ground, one of the guys grabbed both pieces of metal& ZAPPED himself
for proof! "Oh yeah, that's live." I guess he was accustomed to 120volts AC!
Reminds me of when I was a kid, I had a Silvertone tape recorder and a Sure
brothers microphone. The tape recorder chassis was grounded to one side of the
AC. The microphone shield wire was grounded to the metal case of the mic, and
the other side to the recorder chassis. The stack vent pipe from the bathroom
downstairs ran right up through the middle of my bedroom, which of course was
an earth ground.
Mic in one hand, lean against the pipe with the other hand. (you can guess the
rest). I wish I could say I only made that mistake once. :-(
Don
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