The Original Old Farts Club

[Airbone]

I was doing a Sparky stint in the 80s to feed my family We had just came back from a cruise around lunch and were all crawling back up our ladders when I and few others got tapped hard. Found out that a sheetrock crew had flipped a breaker we forgot to lockout . Yeah, we were higher than sheitt.

Airbone, 120v kills more peeps every year than the higher voltages .. 120v constricts your palm and finger muscles around the volt source, not allowing you to remove yourself from the current, .. people die . Higher voltages with the higher amps will kill but usually just blows a chunk out of you as your flying 10 ft away.

Way I figure it… you haven’t really lived till you been energized a time or two.

One time I was changing fluorescent bulbs in a freezer. I had a horrible sinus infection. Got smacked by a bad bulb connection and my sinuses cleared instantly.

 

[pute]

Damn, no wonder this place glows. I I were you I would keep my hand off my pecker. Might blow it up.

Long day on the ranch ...... Toasted.

 

[user 60570]

I drove two 18” inch steel stakes , the ones with predrilled holes for 8 and 16 penny nails , we were setting curb and gutter forms on a construction project at Seattle’s main water treatment plant , drove two of those stakes through , I think this is right , it was a long time ago , 1984 , anyway , I think 880 volt lines

shut 1/2 the plant down.....didn’t do a thing to me...inspector said I was a lucky sum b I t c h

the freaking lines were inside grey plastic pipe , some kind of pvc...and they were not buried deep enough....

I thought buried electrical lines were supposed to be inside metal conduit of some kind , I dunno , I am a cement mason

thats my story and I’m sticking to it.....my brother-in-law had a chunk of meat blown out of his leg when he touched the wrong wires at a radar site at an airport...knocked the snot out of him too

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

Right! I try to follow the rule of keeping one hand in your pocket while poking around, but sometimes, I might forget and need the help, getting confused about positive or negative ground adds to the mix. some of the vacuum tube amps I build have had rails as high as 610 volts. Not the highest, but plenty enough to get your attention. bubba

I can't count how many times I've been nailed by various voltages, up to 45,000 VDC, but so far the most damage has been from jerking my hand back and smacking something sharp.

Just don't want to complete that circuit through the chest. I guess that would be "reaching ground (be it positive or negative) potential"......is a bad thing.Bubba

I changed out a fluorescent light fixture over a stainless sink for a friend, and discovered cutting wires that it had a hot shaver outlet. I was wearing shorts and sweating as I knelt on the stainless sink and it nailed me hard.

I used sheer will power to open my hand to release the dikes but then it started arching and burning my hand, so I leaned to one side and fell off the counter, which pulled me loose.

My nerves were jangled for a good hour afterwards and as far as I can tell, the only thing to recommend the experience was the prestige.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Very Funny

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Morning Anyone else having problems since last night?

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

Well I can post here at least Morning Anyone else having problems since last night? I guess I am on slow .................... never saw anything like this wait 148secs to next posting OK Thanks

I recently suffered that problem on this and other forums and was able to correct it by rebooting my optic cable interface as well as my firewall, router, and switches. Not sure which one fixed it.

 

[user 60570]

feck it , let’s have some dam coffee

 

[WeedHopper]

Got shocked one time as a kid. Figured out that forks weren't made for wall sockets. It burnt my nose hairs. Smelled like an attic with rats and hurt like hell. Fk being a sparky. Not my thing. I've wired plenty shit up but always made sure power was off. Go fking figure. Power off no shock,, who would have ever figured.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Looks like that young lady drinking coffee above
She got Shockz in all the right places
Yahoo Im back

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Speaking of shocks
Wife picked this yesterday
I guess we need to move further away from the Nuclear power plant

 

[pute]

Morning OFC. I was shocked once when I walked in on my parents having sex.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Got shocked one time as a kid. Figured out that forks weren't made for wall sockets. It burnt my nose hairs. Smelled like an attic with rats and hurt like ****. Fk being a sparky. Not my thing. I've wired plenty shit up but always made sure power was off. Go fking figure. Power off no shock,, who would have ever figured.

Ha Yrs ago my friends and I would see who could keep their thumb in a powered light socket the longest.
I always won............................... See my Tongue

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Me too

 

[Bubba]

Bubba You a Sparky?

Naw, just couldn't afford 5 grand power amps so learned to build my own. No design skills, just stand on shoulders of giants who do.

Bubba

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Jack of all trades master of none as Dad use to call me

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Sorry Son
I spent all your college funds in Vegas on the last big fight your stepmother and I had.

 

[1sickpuppy]

Morning everybody, I'm moving slow.

 

[Hippie420]

How'd ya beat yerself up this time? Workin' too hard or just gettin' old?

 

[user 60606]

the freaking lines were inside grey plastic pipe , some kind of pvc...and they were not buried deep enough....

I thought buried electrical lines were supposed to be inside metal conduit of some kind , I dunno , I am a cement mason

yeah big, grey pvc is electrical pvc ... it's a denser polymer plastic compared to water pipe pvc ... and the depth of buried electrical lines of that voltage is 36 inches according to the NEC book, National Electrical Code handbook . .. yeah I bought the book thinking I wanted to get my State Master Electrician License and then found out it's all about politics in your local area and not your abilities ... in fact today in Texas there is no test to be a journeyman or master electrician , just pay monies and walk out with a license .