Bet you get lots of shocks !!!!!

[Evans Electric]

I was asked for the  3,000,000 th time  the other day ,  "Hey I bet you get lots of shocks in your game"       For the 3,000,000 th time I answered   "   Well no , we tend to switch the  juice off TBH." 

Lets face it , one is enough .  

 

[pewter]

Dude - 'Do you wear those gloves to stop getting electric shocks'

Pewter- 'No, it is so i have clean hands when i eat my lunch'     (and i dont get cuts, hands dont dry out, clean hands.....)

I get asked  quite often.

 

[sprocketflup]

I get quite a lot -

"But you don't look a bit like Kate Bush......"

 

[Blue Duck]

Dude - 'Do you wear those gloves to stop getting electric shocks'.

 

[phil d]

Sometimes you wonder about questions, maybe it's a standard question to ask a spark, bit like these, taxi driver ," are you busy, what time are you on will". Cop," been to any good accidents lately?" And when I was involved with the fire service, "what's the worst thing you've seen in the job?"

I really think some people feel obliged to ask you certain questions, or you'll think they're not interested in you, but after you've been asked the same question a few times it gets boring. I remember one of the first times I was asked what the worst incident I'd been to, I told them it was a road accident, they then went on to ask all kinds of questions about it, often you want to try and forget the gory details, put them to the back of your mind. 

 

[rapparee]

I got a shock yesterday, I was working on a little crimp press. All part of the glory of a hangover on a Monday.  :vomit

 

[kerching]

In over 45 years I have had a few 'tickles' a few 'belts', a couple of 'cracks'  And 'A right worker'

in total probably not more than a dozen....but that is a dozen too many!

remember now, let's be careful out there

 

[Lurch]

remember now, let's be careful out there

It's fine, we have RCDs now....

 

[phil d]

I got a shock yesterday, I was working on a little crimp press. All part of the glory of a hangover on a Monday.  :vomit

The funniest shock I got was some years ago working on an industrial washing machine, it was a 3 phase job and I had one probe of the test lamp on one terminal and I was going point to point trying to find the problem. I paused for a moment to think about it, and as usual had a little head scratch, I felt a strange tingle in my head as I scratched it, at the same time the test lamp flickered, very odd!

Suddenly it all became clear, I had one probe on a live terminal and was gently scratching my head with the other.

 

[rapparee]

In over 45 years I have had a few 'tickles' a few 'belts', a couple of 'cracks'  And 'A right worker'

in total probably not more than a dozen....but that is a dozen too many!

remember now, let's be careful out there

It's funny you should say that. That was my third in ten years, so we're quite similar on a pro rata basis.

 

[revjames]

it happens, thankfully not had a belt for about 5 years. I have a healthy respect for the flow of electrons and prefer them not to flow through me....

 

[kerching]

It's funny you should say that. That was my third in ten years, so we're quite similar on a pro rata basis.

As long as we can keep remembering them we will be ok

 

[apprentice87]

The funniest shock I got was some years ago working on an industrial washing machine, it was a 3 phase job and I had one probe of the test lamp on one terminal and I was going point to point trying to find the problem. I paused for a moment to think about it, and as usual had a little head scratch, I felt a strange tingle in my head as I scratched it, at the same time the test lamp flickered, very odd!

Suddenly it all became clear, I had one probe on a live terminal and was gently scratching my head with the other.

One day i was kneeling in damp grass whilst welding. I had an itch by my mouth and weld to sctratch it with the tip of the electrode, never did that again..

Often wondered HOW i had a shock though, as the secondary of a welder, is, in all welders since about 1950, separate from the primary, and also isolated from earth. I presume the item i was welding must have been in contact with the ground too.. Was not too interested at the time, too busy nearly jumping over next doors fence!!

john..

 

[revjames]

I guess youre a down to earth kind of guy John

 

[kerching]

Ever straddled an electric fence?

 

[Andy™]

Ever straddled an electric fence?

these have

 

[apprentice87]

Never mind the landowners fence they have wrecked.. Usual halfwit cyclist mentality..

john..

 

[kerching]

Cretins

why not look for the controller  and disc it?

or let the bloke that put it there in the first place sort it out?

 

[Tony S]

I had a belt off an open slate 550V panel, it got my RH little finger. Every time I went near a live panel after that my little finger curled up, “you’re not getting me again.”



10kV to earth bloody hurts, not so much the shock, hitting the concrete wall backwards knocked me out. A 150VA ignition transformer.

 

[apprentice87]

10kV to earth bloody hurts, not so much the shock, hitting the concrete wall backwards knocked me out. A 150VA ignition transformer.

Been there, done that!!

Mine says "14kV 20mA" and i can safely say that it is not very nice at all!!

Once it was set up [dont ask!!] if you sort of "surrounded" one of the cables leading to what it was powering with your hand, you could feel like a "force field" type thing which i presume was leakage from the cable insulation. It did not feel like a shock. just wierd and made your hand feel funny for a while afterwards!!

john..