General Chat Thread. Long Live The Snark!

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Good to hear from you Oxide. Congrats man!
Glad to hear you're doing well.
 
I burned my Para2 with electricity once. Luckily it was only 12v and not 120. On one of our trucks that has a lift on the back we have the wires hooked to a trailer connector and then we plug another connector into it which has the control for the lift wired to it. One of the posts was bent so I was gonna use the blade of my Para2 to try bend it back and ended up touching the post and grounding it at the same time. I now have a small notch in the spine and the tip was gone. If it woulda been 120v, I'm guessing the knife woulda been ruined.
 
Yeah, I almost zapped myself about 6 times trying to figure out why the factory inverter on my dads truck wouldn't turn on. Anyway there were some big ass sparks coming out of the batteries. :foot:
 
We have went from highs barely getting to 30, lows in the single digits, and snow on Tuesday, to 65 degrees today with a forecasted know of 41. I believe it is officially spring here!!!
 
I can't get a picture of it right now, but how it happened is as follows (I may embellish certain things):

I was using the spine of my RAT 1 to remove the screws for the face plate (it's all down hill from here..), because I'm too lazy to find a screw driver. I got the face plate off without a hitch (well, kinda, I ended up getting that screw driver). Being as the original issue was that the switch was stuck, I set myself to taking the whole switch off. Me being me, I decided I might as well take the whole thing off, so I did. Then I realized that it's attached to wires, (the breaker for the room has been flipped off since before I tried taking the face plate off) so since it was a plate switch (kinda flat, instead of the lever kind, y'know what I mean, right?) I figured with my all knowing teenage brain, it just popped off revealing whatever mechanism behind it made the lights go on and off. I managed to get the switch off (well, partially) just enough to get my knife under there to pry the rest up...

The next thing that happened scared the living $#!+ out of me (and at that moment, most of it was living). I leveraged my knife and, like an idiot, didn't notice my knife making contact with metal box that housed the switch. After I woke up, I noticed my knife on the floor with a scorch mark on it, and a chunk missing from the spine. I looked up and saw a corresponding scorch mark on and a chunk missing from the metal housing.

Now, I'm trying to decided whether I should keep it this way as a reminder, or find a friend with a grinding stone that wants to clip it for me...
 
There was one day I was changing an outlet at the parent's house. It was on the 3rd floor, breaker box was in the basement. I decided I was gonna be lazy so I just took my screwdriver and popped it across the wires to flip the breaker. Room goes dark I figure everything is good. I start going to work putting the new one in and I get zapped. Then my sister's room went dark. So I figure ok, 2 breakers what else could happen. I'm starting back to work and I get zapped again. Ok, so 3, 3 breakers, ah-ah-ahhhh. Working at it again and get zapped a 4th time. At that point I say screw it, go downstairs and flip the power to the whole house. Take the five minutes and change the outlet, go back downstairs and flip the main. Then I'm looking and 4 breakers are flipped I go plug in one of those breaker checker things and I go back down to the box. That one outlet is hooked up to 6 different breakers...

None of the times I got zapped were bad, at all, the screwdriver was one of those rubbery handled "electrician" ones so I wasn't getting zapped personally, just a pop and a smoke.
 
I hate it when I find out that either an outlet is labeled for the wrong breaker or it's mis-wired so that even with the breaker tripped, it's live....
 
is the neutral grounded in the panel? that's really odd...

I recently couldn't find a breaker for an outdoor recept, hit the main so I could change out a weather cover (gang box was metal) and I tripped a zoning control panel for the hvac.. fast and easy but it cost me $95 to fix the zoning panel
 
Screw wiring, try getting bit by a large capacitor. I cleared the top of the outside half of an AC unit, I went sideways and up and over, with a loud Heeeeeeeeaaaaayh In my best James Brown.
Landed and started twitching, guy working with me asked "are you ok?"
I was like "WTF is wrong with you? Do I look ok? Have you ever seen someone fly then curl up from shock, and be ok? Are you fing retarded?"
I was sitting in the grass with my left arm and leg curled into my body tight in contraction from the shock. Electricity is FUN.
 
big capacitors are "fun".
the original "stun grenade"
I used to know some electricians whose idea of a good practical joke was to plug a large capacitor into a wall socket for a bit - then once it was charged, pull it out and toss it to one of the other guys.
if he caught it "right", WHAM! he was on his butt.
 
Yeah man. This was a 3 stage one too, Start, Run and Common. It had apparently shorted into its own body, as I was very careful to not touch the terminals but I got bit nonetheless.
Damn thing dumped its whole charge into me in one pop.
 
sweetness,... that's the way to do it right there... .:D

fleshwound, like the chord chart man... oh and the knife is pretty cool also... :)
 
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