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I learned not to trust bleeder resistors on a BC-610.  Fortunately my exit 
trajectory was straight through an open door and not the wall on either side 
of it.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 12/27/2013 16:38:19 PM Central Standard Time, 
dennis.monticelli at gmail.com writes: 
> As humans I think we learn best via experiences.  Like many of you and 
> many
> of my friends, I had a close call with electricity too.  But what a lesson
> that was!  It made me respect electricity (and chemicals...and sharp
> objects...and...)  and I shared my experiences passionately with others so
> they would learn too.
> 
> Dennis AE6C
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Leslie Smith <vk2bcu at operamail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> >   Mike, you raise a serious point about safety vs knowledge.  You write
> >   about repairing a "death trap" and surviving.
> >
> >  I did the stupidest things you can imagine when I was a kid.  (as sure
> >  as hell I frightened myself doing them.)
> >   e.g. I built a super-regen 2 meter receiver, but rather than winding a
> >   separate coil for the aerial (and thereby isolating the B+ from the
> >   aerial) I "tapped"
> >   the aerial directly onto the coil.  (The impedance match from
> >   "tapping" is as good as a separate winding, is it not?)
> >   So I had B+ on the aerial.  Clever, he?  The supply was came from a
> >   325-0-325 transformer "rescued" from an old B.C. set.
> >   I had built a death trap.  One day  I grabbed the chassis AND the
> >   aerial.
> >   I ended up on the other side of the room - literally.
> >   When I stopped shaking (it took some time) I understood how stupid I
> >   had been.
> >   But I don't regret doing that - because I learned to distrust myself
> >   and think more clearly about what I was doing.
> >
> >   I think we have all had one experience like mine, and there is value
> >   from being "durned stoopid".
> >
> >
> >   73 de Les Smith
> >   vk2bcu at operamail.com
> >