[Elecraft] One more on the "stupid" thread

[Paul Gates, KD3JF]

I will just chime in and give 2 experiences. We had moved to a farm house and I was trying to get a rope over a certain branch. I used a small hammer tied to the end of the rope and was throwing it up in the air to get over the branch. The hammer was coming towards me as I tried to move on icy ground, and I put my hands over my head. They protected my head but hit hard one of my finger nails. I got a needle and sterilized it and worked in around to get a hole in my nail to relieve the pressure. I was not 9 years old but 33 years old!
 
I had a homebrew amp with 2-813 tubes. The cabinet was perforated aluminum. It looked like one of the 813s was glowing red so I had taken the top off and was talking on 20 meters I discovered the tube that was glowing red and decided just to set the top back on the amp. Instead one corner of the aluminum top dipped into the amp and touched the "cap" on one of the 813s. That was an exilerating experience. The perforated top went flying off to the left and my 104D mike went flying off to the right. I was thankful to be alive. I did not have a good feeling for about an hour. 2200volts at 500millamps! Incidently I still have the D104 mike and the last time I used it on a Ten Tec 544 Triton IV it worked very good. 36 years old.
 
Well, here is one more. I was in northern Mich. in the winter and need to get on the roof of the house to make some adjustments on a antenna. The roof was full of snow and ice underneath so I climbed up a ladder and threw some salt on the pathway to the peak of the roof. I then got off the ladder and put my golf shoes on and climed up the roof. Very crazy thing to do.
 
 
Paul Gates, KD3JF 
Elecraft Kits:
K1 #0231
KX1 #1186
XG1: Signal Generator 


----- Original Message ----
From: n2ey at aol.com
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 1:49:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] One more on the "stupid" thread


Classic "Homers" of mine:

- Climb tree, install halyard rope for antenna. Forget to tie rope ends together. Climb down tree,
breeze shakes tree, short end of rope goes up and over branch.....   

Climb tree *again*....


- Two lovely NOS 837 tubes, ready to sell. Neat-and-clean but not-perfectly-level workbench. Concrete basement floor. 

One lovely NOS 837 tube, ready to sell.


- "I'll back up those files tomorrow".......



73 de Jim, N2EY

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