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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:45:41 +0000, straydog wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Roy Lewallen wrote: Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:48:01 -0700 From: Roy Lewallen Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Subject: QUESTION: Fun with Svetlanas or Staying alive with kV power supplies straydog wrote: . . . arcs and smoke can be intimidating. Just the surprise from an arc can make you jump in an unpredictable way and if not hurt yourself from the electrical shock, then you'll bang your head or something else. . . In a previous life, I was reaching way to the back of a cabinet of radar equipment for some reason. I was lying on my stomach, my arm was extended all the way, and my head was into the cabinet doorway about at the forehead level, with a couple of inches clearance above and below. Of course all the safety precautions were followed -- some of the heavy ground radar stuff I worked on was easily lethal. But there was some charged capacitor, something hot from another cabinet of gear, I don't recall, and I got a minor shock. My instinctive reaction was to jerk my head up, and it hit the top of the doorway. That hurt and made me reflexively jerk my head downward, hitting the bottom of the doorway with my forehead. That caused a jerk back upward, hitting the top again, and so forth. There I was, oscillating up and down, beating my head to a pulp, knowing exactly what was happening but helpless to do anything about it. It continued for what seemed like a long time, until I was sore enough that I couldn't feel one more whack, when I was finally able to stop and extract my head and arm. I guess I've felt as stupid a few times since, but only a few times. And when you bend your arm every which way in order to get at something, it might go in all twisted contorted, but it comes out fast and straight when you get bit. I've lost a bit of skin that way, too. Roy Lewallen, W7EL Yep. Great story. Reminds me about that sad/funny joke about the guy, his tower, bucket of tools in a wooden barrel, ropes, pully, and somehow he goes up and down the tower, wooden barrel breaks so the counterweight disappears and he goes down again....broken bones, cracked skull, all kinds of hospital damage. Funny/sad. Similar to the chainsaw joke. Anyone remember or have those jokes stored away somewhere that they can drag them out? That'd be http://monologues.co.uk/004/Bricklayers_Story.htm - at least, that's the original one from Gerard Hoffnung - which dates back a few years. I used to play the tape of this as part of my 'Quality Awareness' sessions - trying to make the point about forward planning, and avoiding situations that are going to cause problems..... There are further versions of this relating to towers and ham radio - a google for Hoffnung + Bricklayer will turn them up Probably funnier to read about than be involved with g Take care Adrian Suffolk UK ======return email munged================= take out the papers and the trash to reply |
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