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    Sparky...

    I don't know if any of you have seen this, but the quantity of failure is only exceeded by the quality of his failure. I have messed around with electrical for many years and have not had the problems this guy has had. Wrap your fingers in electrical tape and at least put on safety glasses!

    https://www.facebook.com/17254705280...0120077713115/
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    Quote Originally Posted by t00nces2 View Post
    I don't know if any of you have seen this, but the quantity of failure is only exceeded by the quality of his failure. I have messed around with electrical for many years and have not had the problems this guy has had. Wrap your fingers in electrical tape and at least put on safety glasses!

    https://www.facebook.com/17254705280...0120077713115/
    Hilarious.

    Reminds me when I was a kid the engine on my motorcycle the throttle got stuck fully open and the only way to shut it down was by pulling the spark plug wire off, at least that is what I thought back then. I now know I could have flipped to choke fully on to kill the engine.

    After pulling the spark plug wire was the beginning of one of life’s many lessons

    What I learned is that you become paralysed and can not let go and it seemed that it took forever for the engine to come to rest.

    Flywheels store kinetic energy, this energy is used to keep the engine revolving during its dead cycles. A single cylinder engine requires a heavier flywheel than say a twin or four cylinder engine would.

    The dead cycles on a four stroke engine that utilise that kinetic energy stored in the flywheel are, intake stroke , compression stroke and exhaust stroke, the power stoke the one that creates the energy derived from fossil fuel..

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    I think this guy made an electric guitar that had electricity running threw the strings. Zapped him pretty darn good in that video

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    I wonder how old he was when he figured out he likes or at least tolerates getting zapped

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    Quote Originally Posted by DakotaRog View Post
    I wonder how old he was when he figured out he likes or at least tolerates getting zapped
    I am wondering how old he will be when he finally figures out to experiment with plumbing rather that electricity.

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    I am pis sing in my pants. And i only watched half of it,
    don't want to wake up the house.

    Google first ask questions later!

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    Or figures out that the old ticker doesn't like outside voltage entering the body. My one uncle, who was probably in his mid-70s at the time, went in for a heart check up with the doc. His pacemaker seemed to be wearing out faster than it should have been. The doc did some questioning and uncle was still monkeying around with electric fence for his cattle and catching more than a few stray zaps. Tough stubborn old bird...

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    I don't know it could be staged. Funny though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NHscrapman View Post
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    I used to work at a multi story retirement home and I saw junction boxes that looked just like that. That could literally be a picture of a junction box I have seen and looks a lot like the box an electrician friend got zapped trying to add a line. He complained at the time that an electrical box should not look like that.

    The worst part was that there were floors and areas where 277 was run for lighting. The 277 was what really scared me. A buddy got bit by a neutral and he persisted complaining to this day... It was over 20 years ago!
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    Yes, I do think that video was staged. I think he is getting zapped at least some of the time. He either has a tolerance for it somehow or somehow gets some of the stuff to arc without getting hit. His heart might not appreciate his more youthful antics further on down the line.


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