[Boatanchors] [BoatAnchors] A WARNING: The Death Angel Flies Close.

[Alan Gutfrucht]

Hello All,

I hate to admit it but this has happened to me twice in my 53 years of being a ham....

I was first licensed in 1966 at the age of 14 and the first incident was sometime around 1967 after upgrading to General. I was working on my newly acquired HT-37 which has the notorious uncaged HV section. My hand brushed by the 6146 plate caps and I got the shock of my life!. It threw me back on the floor. 

I never forgot that and have been very careful ever since........

But recently (within the past couple of months) - fast forward to age 67 and recently working on a restored Central Electronics 20A exciter. The unit was opened up, powered on and sitting on its side. I was checking tube voltages on this relatively low voltage unit when I decided that I should use my tube extender on top (one of those tube extensions with probe points). Anyways, power on, I pulled the tube grabbed the extender and plugged it in with my fingers touching the probes. Got a little shock, but a reminder from 1967.

Regards, 
Alan, WB2FZC



-----Original Message-----
From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net <boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Grant Youngman
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2019 1:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] [BoatAnchors] A WARNING: The Death Angel Flies Close.

Glad this had a better than deadly ending, Dave.  I was there once.  Thrown about ten feet across the room, and was lucky to come to with everything still intact — and nothing more than a couple of nasty burns.

All it takes is one tiny slip of mind … 

Grant NQ5T

> On Nov 16, 2019, at 2:34 PM, David Stinson via BoatAnchors <boatanchors at lists.theporch.com> wrote:
> 
> A WARNING:  Close Encounter with the Death Angel.
> 

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