[ot] use of a long coaxial cable <OT>

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 11:56 -0500, Rick Bowers wrote:
> At 1/22/2007 01:03 AM, you wrote:

> Hee Hee! A man after my own heart.
> I've got some customized tools as well. One of my favorites is an old 
> pair of dikes that now serve equally well for stripping 14 guage 
> wire. I burned a nice 14 ga hold in 'em when I cut the wrong wire.
> It was kinda funny. I was up in the attic movin' some wires out of 
> the way to put in a whole house fan. The dang contractor rn all the 
> wires in the attic down the center of the hallway, right where I 
> needed to install the fan. So I had to move a few. Thought I had 'em 
> all turned off, but missed one.
> So, I'm in the attic, cut the wire, and POW! Burned a 14ga groove in 
> the dikes.
> I'm a bit stunned for a second, and the wife yells from the living 
> room "Hey, the TV just went off" LOL!!
> 
> I usually don't bother trying to find which danged circuit breaker 
> controls the circuit I need to work on. I change plugs and switches 
> "live". And if I need to cut power, I just short out the circuit I 
> need off. It tells me real quickly which breaker it is. ;-)
> 
> 'Been working with 'lectricity nearly all my life. Not a MASTER 
> electrician either. Or even licensed. It's more fun this way.

We did have one guy die, grabbed 110 volt while standing on a damp
stainless table. The guy with him went into flying chicken mode trying
to find the breaker. I guess it never occurred to him to just knock him
off. The worst shocks were when I thought something was off. I was MUCH
more careful when things were on. So, I learned to work that way...
seems to be safer if the danger was present. I blew up less screwdrivers
that way and yes, I have a nice pair of old lineman's pliers with a hole
blasted through the cutting edge. <cackles> I'm sitting on cardboard,
chairs don't last long under me. <ZOT!> dangit. Ric
 
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