[sdiy] First part to actually blow up! Whoo hoo!

[Tom Arnold]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:06:55PM -0400, Aaron Lanterman wrote:
> >Does that mean I'm an electrician if I've accidentally shocked myself with 
> >120VAC three times already?
> 
> It's a necessary but not sufficient condition. ;)
> 
> My grandfather used to repair transmitters for the FAA. Big rooms full of 
> big tubes. High, high voltage. He described one adventure involving a 
> nearby quantum reality in which the next two generation of the family line 
> never wound up happening...

Get me drunk and ask me sometime to launch into my CEBAF story from many
years ago ( www.cebaf.gov ) that involves voltage with more then 6 digits on
the wrong side of the decimal place, the concrete wall 20 feet away, and the
kind paramedics.

I honestly think its why I have a minor heart arrhythmia.  It definatly
beats any high voltage on TV/Tubes/High-Tension Line stories.  And in case
anyone wants to be paranoid, just remember that fingerprints become
conductive at very high voltages, and never trust the first answer you get
from 3M while looking for something to clean those fingerprints off
insulators.

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