Re: Home Auto Turner prize.

["Alancc" <alan.cc@xxxxxxx>]

Earth pin!!! I put the nail in the live hole of a 5 amp socket to get my
first belt at aged 4, didn't put me off though.

My biggest bang was when working on a three phase distribution board an old
style Crabtree with open terminals on the circuit breakers, it was at a
company who ran no end of computers and they did not want them shut down
but
the job had to be finished. Under pressure from the customer and against my
better judgement I decided to connect to the outgoing side of the breaker
with the board live (like you do!) but I didn't notice the breaker was on,
whilst connecting the cable I must have caught my screwdriver between two
of
the phases, this caused a small bang and a ball of hot gas which within a
microsecond spread between all the exposed terminals on that side of the
board, BIG BANG.

I was blind, all the people in the building were shouting, I couldn't see a
thing (silly sod it was late in the day all the lights had gone off). It
made one hell of a mess of my face and the distribution board.

Lesson learned now when I do it I shut my eyes first!!!!

Alancc (with the pitted face)

----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Doxey <ukha@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 10:31 PM
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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Campbell Macdonald [mailto:c.macd@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 10 December 2001 21:57
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Home Auto Turner prize.
>
>
> but you weren't supposed to play with electricity when you were a
> boy......:-)
>
> Hands Up all those whose parents who gave them into trouble for
playing
with
> the electricity.....Honest mum it wasn't me that blew the fuse....
>
> Campbell
>
>
>
>
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