Just had an electric shock

[EarlofBarnet]

Sounds a bit niche!

 

[Tazio]

I've had a few work wise but the most painful one was getting a belt from car electrics. High current DC hurts like a bugger.

The only funny thing about getting a shock is the funny noises you make.

 

[JamesM]

i got hit with 11,000 volts a couple of years ago , knackered my short term memory big time

The one time you could have got away with a double post and it didn't happen!!!

 

[silverclaws]

silverclaws just reminded me i used to know a girl who uesd a tens machine for performance piercing shows, she had metal claws and made sparks fly from her hands. she once skewered a guy through both cheeks with a long metal needle then pluged a lightbulb into his mouth :shock:

Where do you think the name silverclaws came from, I used to make them for people who liked to have fun with electroplay ;

Below, a set I made to special request in pure copper ;

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She had red hair.

 

[JamesM]

Always loved this video clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GiIVze2Tac

Can't quite make out what they guy says at the end. Anyone?

 

[cyfa2809]

Errrr, wow?

 

[silverclaws]

Always loved this video clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GiIVze2Tac

Can't quite make out what they guy says at the end. Anyone?

Wow! ?

When I was a kid I went to the science museum in London and right by the entrance was this big Tesla spark generator that discharged roughly every fifteen minutes, I remember I loved it, is it still there ?

But charging capacitors and rapidly discharging them, yeah, the blue spark, but we got a green one out of a big cap used for HF radio, what we drained to charge that, well, we got the green spark, it was worth it !

But mentioning electrical fences, that principle was used in one workplace I was at, the fitter wired a charged capacitor to a galvy steel shed because one of the office staff was intentionally missing the urinal, he learned his lesson to come out of the latrine to see the sneaky old fitter sniggering away, ( imagine steptoe, that was him) as that old sod knew some dirty tricks. Why, well us being the greasy types that worked in the yard, we got to maintain the latrine, too dirty work for the suits, but one suit went back to the office looking like he had not got to the latrine on time, a light grey suit too.

 

[rosstheboss]

In the Circus of Horrors there's a guy who sword swallows a fluoro tube and shoves a light bulb up his arse on a spike, he is then lit up like a Xmas tree by a bloke called Mr Testicles, who attaches himself to a giant van de graph generator... I was giggling...

 

[hamster]

There are some big capacitors in a crt televison, go on ask me how i know.

I used to work in a CRT factory. The tube holds the charge. Mind, the TV set only used 25-30kV. We had 65kV in the process that really made a for big jolt when you took that from the anode.

I've seen somebody take a shock into the ear when shaking a CRT to listen for something loose inside...he threw it across the room just from the flinch reaction! :shock: