wrote:

Never grab two hot wires at the same time while holding pliers in each
hand.You can't let go of them.

Never grab three hot wires with pliers in each hand and the wire
strippers in your mouth while you're taking a quick shower during a
lightning storm. I had to fall away, taking out two bottles of shampoo,
one hair conditioner, a bar of Ivory soap, the shower curtains and four
yellow rubber duckies.

...and you try telling that to the kids these days, well..they just don't
believe you.


I was saved by landing on a recent purchase of bulk toilet paper. The
stuff's a bargain. It has all sorts of petroleum distillate enhanced
scents in it. Those Chinese are sure clever in enhancing their exports.

You just never know WHAT they'll include at no extra cost.





mikey python

That was about fifteen years ago when I replaced that wall outlet in my
living room, because the old wall outlet, whatever I plugged in wouldn't
stay plugged in.I had probally had a few beers too.Otherwise, I probally
would have cut the juice to all of the four outlets in my living
room.Two of the wall outlets are on one circuit, the other two are on a
different circuit.

I weigh about 185 pounds now.On February 19th this year, I weighed 210
pounds.I know it was February 19th, 2009 and I weighed 210 pounds
because I wrote it down on the inside of one of my bathroom cabinet
doors.Maybe that booze I quit drinking last January had something to do
with my diet.I am staying on my diet untill I get skinny, skinny,
skinny.
cuhulin

wrote:

I weigh about 185 pounds now.On February 19th this year, I weighed 210
pounds.I know it was February 19th, 2009 and I weighed 210 pounds
because I wrote it down on the inside of one of my bathroom cabinet
doors.Maybe that booze I quit drinking last January had something to do
with my diet.I am staying on my diet untill I get skinny, skinny,
skinny.


Why bother? Everyone KNOWS there are no fat people in Mississippi.






mike

m II wrote:
wrote:

I weigh about 185 pounds now.On February 19th this year, I weighed 210
pounds.I know it was February 19th, 2009 and I weighed 210 pounds
because I wrote it down on the inside of one of my bathroom cabinet
doors.Maybe that booze I quit drinking last January had something to do
with my diet.I am staying on my diet untill I get skinny, skinny,
skinny.


Why bother? Everyone KNOWS there are no fat people in Mississippi.






mike

Quit eating meat, for the most part. I just have occasional barbecue,
and turkey on Thanksgiving. No more 3 slabs a day of dead animals.
Helps the planet, helps the waistline.

There are no fatsos in Canada either, or Rhode Island, or Wyoming,
or,,,,,,,,,,,

Yeah, that live juice will make you yell like a lion and squawl like a
painter! (panther)

I have to watch this here Ned Kelly movie on the TCM channel now.Because
it is one of those thingys and I HAVE to.You wouldn't understand.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....t/wildcolo.mid

And then I reckon I might wash both of my big old long tall Dodge vans
and then fiddle fart around in my back yard some more.
cuhulin

"Just Plain Burr" wrote in message
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"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
...

"dxAce" wrote in message
...
I had one experience like that when I was maybe 16 or 17 and I decided
to mess
around inside a Hammarlund receiver, quite the shock.

Only other thing like that I saw was another guy in the Navy getting
into about
5 KV, sent him across the work space, but he was OK.

My most fun shock was when I was about 22. Was working on a microwave
oven, and got across that .5uf 4KV cap. Definately a more stout jolt than
from a TV CRT... I always thought, up to that time, that getting launched
backward across a room by a jolt like that was something that only
happened in cartoons.. well.. after I picked myself up from a large pile
of stainless steel cookware on the other side of the kitchen, I thought
much differently. Definately got my attention (and got my heartrate up to
about 200 for a couple minutes..)



I stuck a coat hanger in the sparkplug on an oil hot water tank onetime,
went across the room also.

I've had a few trips across a room backwards.

I put my tongue on a 9v battery before.

That is the way I test my 9 volt batteries.A few days ago, at a pawn
shop, I bought a hand held EXTECH IR Thermomenter.It works great, has a
9 volt battery.
cuhulin
.................................................. ....
Theres a pawn shop on a corrrner in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvaniaaaa,,,,, and
I walk up and down beneath the clock,,,,,,, took herrr dinnnnin,, took
herrr doncinnnn,,, till herrr blue eyes were shininnnnn,,, and I just
got to get five orrr tennnn,,,,,,,
.................................................. ...

tHat reminds me, Big Joe Polka Show comes on the RFD channel at 6:00 PM
this evening.I need to go ahead on and put a check mark on there so my
tv set will automatically turn it on.
cuhulin

In article ,
says...
After 61 years of playing with, and working with AC electricity I finely
got mine. On top of a 12 "Aluminum" ladder in the rain I stuck the end of an
un-insinuated wire into a hot 220vAC wire and got the crap stocked out of me
and had to throw myself into space to get away from it.

I hit three flowerpots, and a tree on the way down then landed on a
cement border around the tree.



I'm OK, sore cut up a little but alive. The juice went in my left hand and
out my left knee so it didn't cross my heart or other organs (or pianos) on
the way out. Left hand hurts and left knee is swollen and very sore.

I could feel each cycle of the AC as it went threw me and I could not
open my hand. A smaller or person who was not in as good a shape as I am
would have fried their heart. 5 minutes after the stock/fall my BP was
132/62 with a pulse of 65, that's high for me but I'll take it.

I have had many friends do the same thing and die. Over 33 years as a
telephone man I lose a lot of friends to doing the wrong thing at the wrong
time and today it was me BUT, I'm OK.



So Mote It Be





You were lucky, I knew a guy who died from grabbing the wrong wire.

I have three I remember, the first was when I touched the chassis of my
record player I had when I was 4 or so with one hand, while holding onto
a drill (I was using power tools at a very young age since my dad was
useless when dealing with that stuff) and got zapped really good. I felt
bad for a while, and had a slight burn on my hand where the juice passed
into and out of the drill.

The second, and worst one was in my CB days and I had my linear opened
up and was grabbing my D-104 with my left hand, while using a
screwdriver to make adjustments on the linear when it was keyed up. I
had my index finger touching the shaft, and the next thing I know, I was
flying through the closet door, about 10 feet away. A friend of mine was
talking to me when it happened, and he heard a "ZZZZZZZZZZZT!", and I
was gone for a while. Luckily, I just had the mike loosely plugged in,
so it just popped out when I flew. I think the closet door hurt me worse
than the shock.

The third time was about 20 years ago, I was working on a friend's old
Hallicrafters SW receiver, replacing a lot of rotten caps. I knew
better, but I put my hand on the front panel to turn the radio, and
touched the HV side, and really got zapped good. My hand got cooked a
little, and I actually felt bad enough to go to the ER. By the time they
got me in, I was feeling fine, so it was a waste of a couple hundred
bucks it cost me for the visit.

I wish I had your BP.



--

BDK..
Leader of the nonexistent paid shills.
Non Jew Jew Club founding member.
Former number one Kook Magnet, title passed to Iarnrod.

BDK wrote:

In article ,
says...
After 61 years of playing with, and working with AC electricity I finely
got mine. On top of a 12 "Aluminum" ladder in the rain I stuck the end of an
un-insinuated wire into a hot 220vAC wire and got the crap stocked out of me
and had to throw myself into space to get away from it.

I hit three flowerpots, and a tree on the way down then landed on a
cement border around the tree.



I'm OK, sore cut up a little but alive. The juice went in my left hand and
out my left knee so it didn't cross my heart or other organs (or pianos) on
the way out. Left hand hurts and left knee is swollen and very sore.

I could feel each cycle of the AC as it went threw me and I could not
open my hand. A smaller or person who was not in as good a shape as I am
would have fried their heart. 5 minutes after the stock/fall my BP was
132/62 with a pulse of 65, that's high for me but I'll take it.

I have had many friends do the same thing and die. Over 33 years as a
telephone man I lose a lot of friends to doing the wrong thing at the wrong
time and today it was me BUT, I'm OK.



So Mote It Be




You were lucky, I knew a guy who died from grabbing the wrong wire.

I have three I remember, the first was when I touched the chassis of my
record player I had when I was 4 or so with one hand, while holding onto
a drill (I was using power tools at a very young age since my dad was
useless when dealing with that stuff) and got zapped really good. I felt
bad for a while, and had a slight burn on my hand where the juice passed
into and out of the drill.

The second, and worst one was in my CB days and I had my linear opened
up and was grabbing my D-104 with my left hand, while using a
screwdriver to make adjustments on the linear when it was keyed up. I
had my index finger touching the shaft, and the next thing I know, I was
flying through the closet door, about 10 feet away. A friend of mine was
talking to me when it happened, and he heard a "ZZZZZZZZZZZT!", and I
was gone for a while. Luckily, I just had the mike loosely plugged in,
so it just popped out when I flew. I think the closet door hurt me worse
than the shock.

The third time was about 20 years ago, I was working on a friend's old
Hallicrafters SW receiver, replacing a lot of rotten caps. I knew
better, but I put my hand on the front panel to turn the radio, and
touched the HV side, and really got zapped good. My hand got cooked a
little, and I actually felt bad enough to go to the ER. By the time they
got me in, I was feeling fine, so it was a waste of a couple hundred
bucks it cost me for the visit.

I wish I had your BP.

Thanks for the story of getting zapped. I really get intrigued by our shared
experiences.

MNMikeW wrote:
"Just Plain Burr" wrote in message
.. .
"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
...
"dxAce" wrote in message
...
I had one experience like that when I was maybe 16 or 17 and I decided
to mess
around inside a Hammarlund receiver, quite the shock.

Only other thing like that I saw was another guy in the Navy getting
into about
5 KV, sent him across the work space, but he was OK.
My most fun shock was when I was about 22. Was working on a microwave
oven, and got across that .5uf 4KV cap. Definately a more stout jolt than
from a TV CRT... I always thought, up to that time, that getting launched
backward across a room by a jolt like that was something that only
happened in cartoons.. well.. after I picked myself up from a large pile
of stainless steel cookware on the other side of the kitchen, I thought
much differently. Definately got my attention (and got my heartrate up to
about 200 for a couple minutes..)


I stuck a coat hanger in the sparkplug on an oil hot water tank onetime,
went across the room also.

I've had a few trips across a room backwards.

I put my tongue on a 9v battery before.



I spent 30 years working on tube amplifiers, up to about 35,000 Vdc on
some of them. I have never had an electric shock because when I work
with electricity I concentrate. Same level of concentration as driving
or shooting guns. Zero defects, zero tolerance.