[TheForge] Generators

[qualityrepairs at bellsouth.net]

take an old fashioned electric drill, no vari-speed, and plug it into the outlet with the generator running and the breaker turned on.  hold the drill trigger on and turn the drill chuck backwards.  This will generate enough power to energize the field without opening the generator and having to find positive and negative, etc. 
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> From: "Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
> Date: 2004/08/31 Tue PM 08:34:56 EDT
> To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [TheForge] Generators
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> 
> Winter is a coming in, and we're expecting our usual few days without
> electric when the lines go down. We have a generator, but it needs something
> done to it, and I'm hoping you characters can explain in words of one
> syllable or less, just exactly what.
> 
> The thing runs fine, but it generates no electricity- the story we have is
> because there is something wrong with the electric field- it needs to be
> "reflashed" or "reflushed" or something. Can you guys tell me what's wrong,
> and what needs to be done to fix it?
> 
> Saint Phlip,
> CoD
> 
> "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
>  Blacksmith's credo.
> 
>  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> cat.
> 
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
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