RE: Home Auto Turner prize.

["Steve Morgan" <steve@xxxxxxx>]

:-)

I was four when I worked out that if I pushed the orange plastic handled
meccano screwdriver into the earth contact of a 13 amp socket, I could get
the bent metal screwdriver into the live contact! My mum and dad came to
see
what was going on when they heard me hit the opposite wall.

I also learned how domestic lighting circuits were wired in my early teens
when I tried to change the light fitting in my bedroom after turning off
the
power at the light switch.

Steve
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 10 December 2001 22:32
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Home Auto Turner prize.
>
>
> I started "playing" with electricity 38 years ago when I was
3.
>
> My Grandad caught me poking a nail into a 5amp socket
> (luckily it was the
> Earth pin) and decided it would be safer if he bought me a low voltage
> electrical set. It consisted of 2 lampholders, two bulbs, a couple of
> plastic lampshades (pink & green) and a couple switches along
> with wire and
> batteries. [Was that a "Turner Prize DIY Kit?"] Since then I
have made
> several unsuccesful attempts at electrocuting/blowing myself up.
>
> Biggest fuse I ever blew was a 100 Amp supply fuse whilst a
> nightclub was
> open, blacked out one of the bars but the sound and light carried on.
>
> I started "working" with electricity when I was 13 assisting
> the electrician
> at the local Pontins Holiday camp.
>
> Keith