Static electricity warning

:lol::lol::lol:


Insanity......I going find a pix of a REAL electrical discharge.....

As you can see my tape....3' diameter on the base, split trunk is about 40' long, look close at the top section and the beginning of the split.....

it was a result of a direct shot of lightening, and wiped out most of the electronics in the surrounding homes....ALL of it.....

friggin' lightening rods, is all a damn tree near your house IS....


:flash::shocking::shocking::shocking:


that happened maybe 4 years ago....my first experience still has the remnants of a similar oak tree in my back yard, rotting away, it wiped out the ATT phone lines in my case....course today I"m cphone, but it drove me from land lines to Comcast.....for about ten years.....

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bigbrother said:
Oww! Hahahaha...

Good thing it wasn't a video on the safe use of a chainsaw lol.
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I didn't want to go there, BUT, I swear this is all true....one of the older men who owned the tree company died of a heart attack/stroke during this tree removal....another one, a son suffered some tree related broken bone deal......the company backed off for a few weeks, came back and when that trunk split in 1/2 as shown....one of the employees had it come apart on his FOOT/Ankle and send him to the hospital.....

no shit....go figger....seriously......

I suspect some guys think I tell tall tales, full of bullshit on any forum, and I swear I have led the kraziest life of anyone, the strangest off the wall shit seems to surround me.....I dunno WTF I ever did to attract it, all I can do is try to keep a sense of humor about it.....I suppose....
 
Guy made a whole serie of goofy tutorial.
He's actually pretty good comedian in the deadpan style.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRwIrbK8KDI[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr7bPmGTQUk[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQJ8JX17J58[/ame]
 
That first video is a hoot!
I have the Boeing ESD training- wrist straps, grounded workstations, you name it. Boeing's training video is pretty good, but it's not a bit funny.
I remember the GM training center guy that did the HEI when it first came out. I'll bet he got bit 5 or 6 times that day in class.
 
:shocking:

Back in the vacuum tube daze, one of the best tricks to pull off on a newbie tech, typically a kid, was to toss them a fully charged electrolytic cap, about 40 mfd and 450 volts.....when they went to catch it.....


:devil::pprrtt:
 
mrvette said:
:shocking:

Back in the vacuum tube daze, one of the best tricks to pull off on a newbie tech, typically a kid, was to toss them a fully charged electrolytic cap, about 40 mfd and 450 volts.....when they went to catch it.....


:devil::pprrtt:
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I remember those games. Ouch!

I got "thrown" by one of those old console TV sets. I was wearing an I.D. bracelet (remember them?) and got too close to the open back of the TV where the big old tubes were...
Lesson learned
 
DeeVeeEight said:
mrvette said:
:shocking:

Back in the vacuum tube daze, one of the best tricks to pull off on a newbie tech, typically a kid, was to toss them a fully charged electrolytic cap, about 40 mfd and 450 volts.....when they went to catch it.....


:devil::pprrtt:
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I remember those games. Ouch!

I got "thrown" by one of those old console TV sets. I was wearing an I.D. bracelet (remember them?) and got too close to the open back of the TV where the big old tubes were...
Lesson learned
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glad you didn't do that with me... I don't react well to being shocked. I was working on a restaurant, and went to step onto a vent hood (16'-0 stainless vent hood) - got shocked. I said WTF, I just got shocked - the electrician working 30' away and basically told me to 'f' off. I threw my tin knocker hammer at him (fortunately, I'm terrible aim). Embedded itself in the wall above him. He runs outside and calls his boss. His boss comes in, really mad, I'm still smoking mad myself (figuratively and literally).... I'm under the hood, he gets in my face, I grab his ear and the hood simultaneously. I seriously thought he'd rupture a vein in his neck... he just looks at me, and starts walking quickly for the door. The electrician, seeing all of this, jetsons his tools and starts running across the parking lot and away.

Boss comes back, kind of chuckling because of the now former employee's response... said "don't do that again" I retorted, "wire the equipment right and we'll be fine".... :clap:
 
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRwIrbK8KDI[/ame]

On the last part of this video, when the motor suddenly starts...
This is exactly what happened to me when I try my starter to see if it worked after I rebuilded it!

The frigging thing flew off the worbench!
Lesson learned?
Always make sure your starter is tied to the workbench before you test it!
 
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SuperBuickGuy said:
DeeVeeEight said:
mrvette said:
:shocking:

Back in the vacuum tube daze, one of the best tricks to pull off on a newbie tech, typically a kid, was to toss them a fully charged electrolytic cap, about 40 mfd and 450 volts.....when they went to catch it.....


:devil::pprrtt:
Click to expand...

I remember those games. Ouch!

I got "thrown" by one of those old console TV sets. I was wearing an I.D. bracelet (remember them?) and got too close to the open back of the TV where the big old tubes were...
Lesson learned
Click to expand...

glad you didn't do that with me... I don't react well to being shocked. I was working on a restaurant, and went to step onto a vent hood (16'-0 stainless vent hood) - got shocked. I said WTF, I just got shocked - the electrician working 30' away and basically told me to 'f' off. I threw my tin knocker hammer at him (fortunately, I'm terrible aim). Embedded itself in the wall above him. He runs outside and calls his boss. His boss comes in, really mad, I'm still smoking mad myself (figuratively and literally).... I'm under the hood, he gets in my face, I grab his ear and the hood simultaneously. I seriously thought he'd rupture a vein in his neck... he just looks at me, and starts walking quickly for the door. The electrician, seeing all of this, jetsons his tools and starts running across the parking lot and away.

Boss comes back, kind of chuckling because of the now former employee's response... said "don't do that again" I retorted, "wire the equipment right and we'll be fine".... :clap:
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:flash::flash::flash::yahoo:Tanks for the story, I about fell outta the chair,

I been bit by olde tyme color TV sets with the bell of the pix tube at some 30 KV.....and then also fergettin the damn thing was plugged in and grabbing the lead from the HV/Flyback transformer to the HV rectumfryer tube and having my thumb burnt clean through the nail from the grip side....THAT took a while to heal over, but at least it was cauterized .....

and then some maybe 55 years ago, my father bought me a VTVM Vacuum Tube Volt Meter..... and so I was playing round with a old tyme power transformer....and forgot to let go the metal leads.....

800 volts from arm to arm, off the chair, blown backwards on to the basement/concrete floor off my 'bar' stool......Mom inquired why I was not in the basement fiddling around with my stuff, and the bench was ON....

Never did tell her what happened....she didn't understand electrickery too much.......:flash:
 
In Dutch they have a saying about this : een ezel stoot zich geen twee keer aan dezelfde steen...

Freely translated : a donkey doesn't bump into the same brick twice...

I guess he's not a donkey ...
 
Belgian1979vette said:
In Dutch they have a saying about this : een ezel stoot zich geen twee keer aan dezelfde steen...

Freely translated : a donkey doesn't bump into the same brick twice...

I guess he's not a donkey ...
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Some daze I feel like a jackass......all you all keep your comments to yourselves, please.....:hissyfit:
 
Belgian1979vette said:
In Dutch they have a saying about this : een ezel stoot zich geen twee keer aan dezelfde steen...

Freely translated : a donkey doesn't bump into the same brick twice...

I guess he's not a donkey ...
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Surely not, he's a comedian.
Me too I though at first it was non-intentional.
 
denpo said:
Belgian1979vette said:
In Dutch they have a saying about this : een ezel stoot zich geen twee keer aan dezelfde steen...

Freely translated : a donkey doesn't bump into the same brick twice...

I guess he's not a donkey ...
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Surely not, he's a comedian.
Me too I though at first it was non-intentional.
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it was the last one, where he grabbed the board that made me think "ah ha"

as for twice... sometime I'll have to relate how I found out my house was improperly wired :shocking:
 
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