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Adrian C
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AnimalMagic wrote:
[quote]On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:51:16 GMT, Glen Walpert <nospam@null.void> wrote:
What? Everyone that shit their pants when the steel clapped?
All it takes to really piss someone off in an HV lab is a simple clap
of the hands at an inappropriate moment.
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Jim Thompson
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:06 pm Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:37:50 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
[quote]On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:29:21 -0700, Jim Thompson
To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:19:12 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:03:22 -0400, Spehro Pefhany
speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:50:13 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:10:49 -0400, T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net
wrote:
In article <488fca5b$0$2273$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
youwillfindme@home.com.au says...
how bout this one
a kid at school stuck a peace of solder in
the power point in eletrical and switched it on
knocked him off his stool.
That>s just someone being a dumbass. Even as a kid I knew AC power could
knock you on your ass, even just the 120V 15A sutff. My great
grandfather taught me quite a bit about electricity.
My father was a know-it-all so one day he decides to replace the kitchen
light fixture.
I was about 11 years old at the time. Told him to make sure the power
was cut and he assured me it was. Next thing I know the old man is on
his ass. I just looked at him with my "Told you so..." look.
Recently I had to fix a light fixture in my bathroom. But something was
off on the wiring. I>d cut the power to the room but was still getting
voltage across the pair of wires. Hmmm.. seems the neutral wasn>t
exactly neutral at all. Cut the power to the whole house and then
replaced the fixture.
I almost always wire things hot. It>s more sporting.
John
Yup! As a circuit designer, if you can>t anticipate current flows at
that level of complexity you don>t deserve to live anyway.
Couldn>t agree more.
John
Aren>t most iron tips grounded?
...Jim Thompson
I use wire nuts on AC power wiring; don>t solder that stuff much.
But I do often solder live electronics with grounded-tip irons,
especially when powering down will waste a lot of time, like forcing a
reload of uP code or something. I mean, you>ve got the schematic right
in front of you.
John
[/quote]
Good way to kill analog IC>s if you don>t get the pin soldering order
correct ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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Rich Grise
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:01 pm Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:38:57 -0400, Stephen D. Barnes wrote:
[quote]John Larkin wrote:
And we haven>t even got to motorcycles.
How about a 25 horse Evenrude outboard bolted to a home made
boogie board? T-handle attached to rope attached to front
of boogie board! Rider squats on boogie board as two assistants hold the
board up in the water and a third assistant starts the motor! Extreeeemly
dangerous! But we did it anyway! I think the record for one of the guys
was about 150 yards before before going belly up!
[/quote]
I once saw a guy ride around on an inner tube, holding a small outboard
motor in his hands. =:-O
Cheers!
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christofire
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote in
message news:f52194l2f98r11a62c27g2qn47ftg9r1mp@4ax.com...
[quote]
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:19:12 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:03:22 -0400, Spehro Pefhany
speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:50:13 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:10:49 -0400, T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net
wrote:
In article <488fca5b$0$2273$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
youwillfindme@home.com.au says...
how bout this one
a kid at school stuck a peace of solder in
the power point in eletrical and switched it on
knocked him off his stool.
That>s just someone being a dumbass. Even as a kid I knew AC power
could
knock you on your ass, even just the 120V 15A sutff. My great
grandfather taught me quite a bit about electricity.
My father was a know-it-all so one day he decides to replace the
kitchen
light fixture.
I was about 11 years old at the time. Told him to make sure the power
was cut and he assured me it was. Next thing I know the old man is on
his ass. I just looked at him with my "Told you so..." look.
Recently I had to fix a light fixture in my bathroom. But something was
off on the wiring. I>d cut the power to the room but was still getting
voltage across the pair of wires. Hmmm.. seems the neutral wasn>t
exactly neutral at all. Cut the power to the whole house and then
replaced the fixture.
I almost always wire things hot. It>s more sporting.
John
Yup! As a circuit designer, if you can>t anticipate current flows at
that level of complexity you don>t deserve to live anyway.
Couldn>t agree more.
John
Aren>t most iron tips grounded?
...Jim Thompson
[/quote]
Only the first time
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Stephen D. Barnes
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:21 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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Ken S. Tucker wrote:
[quote]On Jul 30, 11:01 am, Rich Grise <r...@example.net> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:38:57 -0400, Stephen D. Barnes wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
And we haven>t even got to motorcycles.
How about a 25 horse Evenrude outboard bolted to a home made
boogie board? T-handle attached to rope attached to front
of boogie board! Rider squats on boogie board as two assistants hold the
board up in the water and a third assistant starts the motor! Extreeeemly
dangerous! But we did it anyway! I think the record for one of the guys
was about 150 yards before before going belly up!
We had a 25hp 1993 Evinrude, beautiful motor,
quiet, ultra good mileage, lots of power on 14'
Al boat.
I once saw a guy ride around on an inner tube, holding a small outboard
motor in his hands. =:-O
I don>t like inner tubes, the valve stem ends up in
funny places, I think they could cause gayism,
butt maybe that>s why they>re called inner tubes.
Ken
Having owned one, I>m sure you can imagine the difficulty of[/quote]
keeping the nose of a boogie board down with that motor
bolted to it! Fortunately it was an old junker we got
running just to try this half baked idea. Could only get
about two rides each day though (when you fall off, it sinks
then have to pull it up on shore and dry it out). Did this
in the shallow portion of the York river in Seaford,VA.
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Stephen D. Barnes
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:21 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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Ken S. Tucker wrote:
[quote]I *read* that a running motor going submerged usually
blows a rod, cuz it suks water into the carb and then
into the cylinder, I suppose that>s not true?
Otherwise I suppose just tuggin' the start cord will get
you dried out?
Ken
[/quote]
You are correct! The only "safety device" we had was a
wooden peg fit into a hole in the boogie board near the
motor and was attached to a stretched piece of surgical
rubber tubing. A very thin string was attached to the
rider>s ankle and to the peg. Another string was tied
between the spark plug wire and the peg. Rider falls off,
peg pulls out, rubber tube contracts pulling the spark plug
wire off! I know now that there are better ways, but hey, we
were young and foolish then and wanted to impress the girls
one afternoon! We actually built this thing in about two
hours and then proceeded to give said girls the best laugh
of the season!
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krw
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:06 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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In article <mh0194tn0t8hp20k4cnf5u75s22d528rff@4ax.com>,
speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat says...
[quote]On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:50:13 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:10:49 -0400, T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net
wrote:
In article <488fca5b$0$2273$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
youwillfindme@home.com.au says...
how bout this one
a kid at school stuck a peace of solder in
the power point in eletrical and switched it on
knocked him off his stool.
That>s just someone being a dumbass. Even as a kid I knew AC power could
knock you on your ass, even just the 120V 15A sutff. My great
grandfather taught me quite a bit about electricity.
My father was a know-it-all so one day he decides to replace the kitchen
light fixture.
I was about 11 years old at the time. Told him to make sure the power
was cut and he assured me it was. Next thing I know the old man is on
his ass. I just looked at him with my "Told you so..." look.
Recently I had to fix a light fixture in my bathroom. But something was
off on the wiring. I>d cut the power to the room but was still getting
voltage across the pair of wires. Hmmm.. seems the neutral wasn>t
exactly neutral at all. Cut the power to the whole house and then
replaced the fixture.
I almost always wire things hot. It>s more sporting.
John
Yup! As a circuit designer, if you can>t anticipate current flows at
that level of complexity you don>t deserve to live anyway.
[/quote]
One of my small projects when I was a Junior Engineer was a
frequency independent 240/480 phase rotation sensor. My boss
laughed at me when he say me with one hand in my back pocket while
testing it.
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Archimedes' Lever
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:06 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:26:25 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
[quote]On 30 Jul 2008 13:15:22 GMT, Jim Yanik <jyanik@abuse.gov> wrote:
Archimedes' Lever <OneBigLever@InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote in
news:u9ov8492phgasvg5r194hujp67comilsp5@4ax.com:
On 30 Jul 2008 02:53:23 GMT, Jim Yanik <jyanik@abuse.gov> wrote:
Archimedes' Lever <OneBigLever@InfiniteSeries.Org> wrote in
news:e99v849v51g77987bn0ilqchi1j4pn35p4@4ax.com:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:06:22 +0200, Martin Griffith
mart_in_medina@yah00.es> wrote:
DHS..... nasty idea, reminds of McCarthy, somehow. You really should
do something about them
Do you actually think that McCarthyism ever died out to begin with?
McCarthy turned out to be right,according to KGB records.
You>re a goddamned retard if you believe that utter horseshit. Are you
really so naive as to think that the KGB would pass on to us valid,
legitimate historical "information"?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17401
You>ve got to admire the persistence and research effort it must take
to be Always Wrong.
John
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Who were these actor/writer secret agents? |
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ZACK.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:06 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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piss off satan you troll
*plonk*
"FatBytestard" <FatBytestard@somewheronyourharddrive.org> wrote in message
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[quote]On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:48:35 +1000, "ZACK." <youwillfindme@home.com.au
wrote:
"FatBytestard" <FatBytestard@somewheronyourharddrive.org> wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:16:41 +1000, "ZACK." <youwillfindme@home.com.au
wrote:
my brother tried to get the lead out of
a 22 bullit with a hammer, and it fired.
Why are you a top posting retard? Oh yeah... the bullet hit you in the
head.
i will top side bottem left right round post
if i wont to.
We used to fire boxes of .22s with a flat rock and a hammer.
I modified my .22 pellet pistol to accept a .22 short cartridge.
Getting it to fire was the interesting part.
Yes, and U can B referred 2 as a ReTaRd too.[/quote] |
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Bungalow Bill
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:06 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:29:21 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
[quote]
Aren>t most iron tips grounded?
...Jim Thompson
[/quote]
Where? Many are two wire sets. The three wire powered sets are DC at
the tip from the base.
So where do the AC powered, two wire sets get grounded... safely? |
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ZACK.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:06 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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and another arsewipe troll
*plonk*
"ItsASecretDummy" <secretasianman@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in
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[quote]On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:58:13 +1000, "ZACK." <youwillfindme@home.com.au
wrote:
how bout this one
a kid at school stuck a peace of solder in
the power point in eletrical and switched it on
knocked him off his stool.
Jeez, come back when you have reached puberty, and long after you have
shed the gang boy retard style of writing.[/quote] |
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ZACK.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:06 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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"Frank Buss" <fb@frank-buss.de> wrote in message
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[quote]z wrote:
well, weird is one thing, dumb is another. one day i decided to see
how many amps the wall socket could deliver, using my multimeter....
The fuse should avoid any dangerous effects, but looks like most
multimeters are not safe:
[/quote]
a friend tried to check a bridge rectifire 30amp
with a cro, when pluged into mains, did not know
the negitive probe was grounded to earth, bits of bridge
all over the place and burnt hair on arms.
[quote]
http://www.bgfe.de/bilder/pdf/bericht_sp_handmultimeter.pdf
http://www.bgfe.de/bilder/pdf/kurzschlussmultimeter1.wmv
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Frank Buss, fb@frank-buss.de
http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de[/quote] |
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ZACK.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:06 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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troll
"FatBytestard" <FatBytestard@somewheronyourharddrive.org> wrote in message
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[quote]On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:48:35 +1000, "ZACK." <youwillfindme@home.com.au
wrote:
"FatBytestard" <FatBytestard@somewheronyourharddrive.org> wrote in message
news:gl5u84p3eg3va793v4usuqgp2k1kk2cfc1@4ax.com...
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:16:41 +1000, "ZACK." <youwillfindme@home.com.au
wrote:
my brother tried to get the lead out of
a 22 bullit with a hammer, and it fired.
Why are you a top posting retard? Oh yeah... the bullet hit you in the
head.
i will top side bottem left right round post
if i wont to.
We used to fire boxes of .22s with a flat rock and a hammer.
I modified my .22 pellet pistol to accept a .22 short cartridge.
Getting it to fire was the interesting part.
Yes, and U can B referred 2 as a ReTaRd too.[/quote] |
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ZACK.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:06 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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"ItsASecretDummy" <secretasianman@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in
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[quote]On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:58:13 +1000, "ZACK." <youwillfindme@home.com.au
wrote:
how bout this one
a kid at school stuck a peace of solder in
the power point in eletrical and switched it on
knocked him off his stool.
Jeez, come back when you have reached puberty, and long after you have
shed the gang boy retard style of writing.[/quote] |
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ZACK.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:06 am Post subject: Re: Weird stuff you did as a brat? |
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troll
"ItsASecretDummy" <secretasianman@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in
message news:47ov84l0rqa1313o1le8j14js9uj4khb11@4ax.com...
[quote]On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:58:13 +1000, "ZACK." <youwillfindme@home.com.au
wrote:
how bout this one
a kid at school stuck a peace of solder in
the power point in eletrical and switched it on
knocked him off his stool.
Jeez, come back when you have reached puberty, and long after you have
shed the gang boy retard style of writing.[/quote] |
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