TIP FOR FRIDAY from INWC

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

Today's tip from inwc , when carrying out electrical electrical work that involves soldering,
May sure before you get distracted and pick it up from the hot end.
I can vouch that it smarts, only a second contact, got the brand marks on the palm and fingers.
Will think twice before doing that again.:(

[ugu80]

Been there, done that.

[scarry]

We braze copper all day,if i got a dollar for every time i have done that i would be real rich:)

[bee utey]

You obviously haven't tried sitting on one then. Back in the 70's my next door neighbour sat on one he had carefully rested on the block of concrete behind him. He was wearing nylon pants. His mother spent some time snipping the wreck of the trows out off his little bottomly hairs.:eek:

Shortly after that he purchased an instant Scope iron like mine.:p

[spudboy]

His mother spent some time snipping the wreck of the trows out off his little bottomly hairs.:eek:



Nice description!!

:D

[JDNSW]

Reminds me a bit of my boss fifty years ago - was doing welding repairs to the towing eye on a dog trailer. He had the tow bar propped up on a length of steel. When he finished, he put down the handpiece, took off the welding helmet - and lifted the towing eye to remove the prop (no OH&S, no gloves!)........

John

[wrinklearthur]

Instant brains, if you wan't thinking before you certainly are thinking afterwards! :(

[sheerluck]

You obviously haven't tried sitting on one then. Back in the 70's my next door neighbour sat on one he had carefully rested on the block of concrete behind him. He was wearing nylon pants. His mother spent some time snipping the wreck of the trows out off his little bottomly hairs.:eek:

Sounds like a poor attempt at a self-administered back, sack and crack to me!:D

My father-in-law did something equally stupid when he was here over Christmas - he was welding up a frame for a solar panel, when he put the mask down to change the rod over (putting his knee on the still hot angle iron he had just welded and burning a nice L-shape on his knee), and promptly forgot to pick the mask back up when finishing off.

As an ex-Royal Air Force engineer (35 years served) you would have thought it would be a difficult mistake to make, but 3 days of suffering with "arc eye" is a nasty lesson to ignore.

This was a couple of days after he had stood a little too close to the incinerator bin that we were burning a lot of garden waste in (suitably attired in safety thongs and shorts:angel:), and lost all of the hairs from the knee down. A very swift way to learn that palm fronds burn like.....bloody hell.:twisted:

[Hymie]

Many,many years ago I worked at a shop that built Galvanised Iron water tanks, we also repaired Car Radiators.
One of the older blokes was instructing me in the gentle art of soldering the water tank seams and I was having a bit of trouble getting it done to his satisfaction.
"Listen here young Feller, if you don't get it right I'll stick this here Soldering Iron up your backside handle first" he said.
"Handle First?" says I,
"Yer, handle first so you burn your hands when you pull it out" he said.
I learned to solder real quick with that motivation.

[clubagreenie]

Best thing you'll see when newbies are learning to weld underwater is when they finish a bead then put their head in mice and close to look and move their hand (with live hand piece) back and usually behind their head. Arcs across their dive hat and to the work piece. Call the surface to shut down the welder and drag them to the surface. They have a nice headache for a few days and a trip to the dentist to replace any metal fillings as they dissolve in the current.

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

Best thing you'll see when newbies are learning to weld underwater is when they finish a bead then put their head in mice and close to look and move their hand (with live hand piece) back and usually behind their head. Arcs across their dive hat and to the work piece. Call the surface to shut down the welder and drag them to the surface. They have a nice headache for a few days and a trip to the dentist to replace any metal fillings as they dissolve in the current.
OUCH!

[scanfor]

As an apprentice signal electrician with SRANSW, I got to work in a few country areas.

Down Albury way they had sections of JS tracks, which used a 3Hz pulse at +300 to -75 Volts so the sections could be longer than usual between relay cupboards.

I was replacing some bonds one day, which the wires that join one piece of rail to the next around a fishplated join. Without them, the joint would be high resistance due to rust and movement, so they are needed to keep the circuit energised reliably.

They are held into holes drilled in the web of the rail by pins, that had to be knocked out with a cold chisel and hammer to change the bond.

When the bond is removed, there is a chance that one end of the rail will be at +300V and the end of the next piece of rail will at ground if the fishplate isn't conducting the current.

Well it was a hot and sweaty day and I was soaked through.
I sat down on the rail to knock out the pins, you guessed it, one cheek on one side of the join and one cheek on the other.
Shorts that are wet with salty sweat conduct electricity quite well....

Lesson learnt. The electrician that I was working with didn't say much about it, but I reckon he got a laugh.

[wrinklearthur]

As an apprentice signal electrician with SRANSW, I got to work in a few country areas.

Down Albury way they had sections of JS tracks, which used a 3Hz pulse at +300 to -75 Volts so the sections could be longer than usual between relay cupboards.

I was replacing some bonds one day, which the wires that join one piece of rail to the next around a fishplated join. Without them, the joint would be high resistance due to rust and movement, so they are needed to keep the circuit energised reliably.

They are held into holes drilled in the web of the rail by pins, that had to be knocked out with a cold chisel and hammer to change the bond.

When the bond is removed, there is a chance that one end of the rail will be at +300V and the end of the next piece of rail will at ground if the fishplate isn't conducting the current.

Well it was a hot and sweaty day and I was soaked through.
I sat down on the rail to knock out the pins, you guessed it, one cheek on one side of the join and one cheek on the other.
Shorts that are wet with salty sweat conduct electricity quite well....

Lesson learnt. The electrician that I was working with didn't say much about it, but I reckon he got a laugh.

Hi scanfor

You were lucky, 50 milliamps for 50 milliseconds, across your body will stop your heart from beating.
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