more idiots

paul b b · May 29, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xuHx_ZkN5JM?feature=oembed

leccyman · May 29, 2010

What a c**K

Voltimax · May 29, 2010

Well we used to do that all the time at college when I was an apprentice. We didn't attach them to our nads though I must point out. We used to see how long we could hold onto the probes and make a competition of it. Also there were two lads going around shocking people in the neck. When we were all writing at a table you naturally bend your head downwards thus exposing the back of your neck. They'd come round, one holding the probes the other holding the tester. The one holding the probes would stab them into your neck whilst the other hit the button. I don't know which hurt most, the stabbing with the sharp probe ends or the ensuing electric shock.

Once when I was an apprentice I was asked by my electricians to put a socket front on. I couldn't understand why when I tried to strip the insulation I kept receiving an electric shock and yet it was a new house and the supply hadn't yet been put on. Eventually after many shocks I heard sniggering. One of the electricians was on the landing watching me, the other had an insulation resistance tester connected to a socket on the ring main. each time I tried to strip the cable the sparks on the landing gave a signal for the other to power up the tester. Rotten sods.

SPECIAL LOCATION · May 30, 2010

Once when I was an apprentice I was asked by my electricians to put a socket front on. I couldn't understand why when I tried to strip the insulation I kept receiving an electric shock and yet it was a new house and the supply hadn't yet been put on. Eventually after many shocks I heard sniggering. One of the electricians was on the landing watching me, the other had an insulation resistance tester connected to a socket on the ring main. each time I tried to strip the cable the sparks on the landing gave a signal for the other to power up the tester. Rotten sods.

Back in my younger days as an apprentice with a firm installing commercial communication, timekeeping, alarm and security systems..

we would be installing Pyro for fire alarm systems..

sent me off to put the Pots & glands on the far ends of the cables

and the gaffa at the panel would be sitting there with the old fashioned crank-handle analogue megger winding away stuffing a constant 500v down the cable I was meant to be terminating!

:yellow card

:O:O

revjames · May 30, 2010

When I was at the aluminium smelter I used to work on overhead cranes. they were insulated from earth in several zones. It was often amusing to be working up top and see a fitter with spanners working near a place where 2 zones met. You just put the megger across the test points up top and waited for him to drop his spanners!

Prior to that I remember 2nd fixing some sockets and a (very large) painter pointed to my megger and asked what it was. Without hesitating I told him it was for measuring the moisture content in walls to see if there was a good earth. He seemed to swallow that and as he was a bodybuilder I offered to test his 'moisture content' and informed him it was an indication of how physically fit you were. He swallowed this and said OK then and I gave him the 2 leads to hold one in each hand. I stuck it on 1000V and pressed the button. He jumped in the air with a priceless expression on his face then looked at me saw my grin and I knew it was time to run!