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[dave.king1]

Amen, Reverend King! Testify!

Let me see, brass compass across live 240v in the music room at high school, yeah fingers did go across it first.

Then some years later found out how much kick 385v on the anode cap of my AC30 clone had.

Then later again dropped a ring spanner across 50v DC, main bus bars carrying about 3.5K amps from memory, the spanner simply disappeared in a bright flash into an alternate universe

[FrankenWashie]

Let me see, brass compass across live 240v in the music room at high school, yeah fingers did go across it first.

Then some years later found out how much kick 385v on the anode cap of my AC30 clone had.

Then later again dropped a ring spanner across 50v DC, main bus bars carrying about 3.5K amps from memory, the spanner simply disappeared in a bright flash into an alternate universe

Yep, walked in on my brother changing over a single GPO to a dual plug GPO in his room way back when. Coversation went like this:

Me: WTF are you doing?!?!
Him: it was cracked and I want the extra plug
Me: you are not a qualified electrician
Him: It's okay, I've switched it off....(shows me the outlet switch in the off position)
Me: did you at least pull the Fuse or switch off the main switch?
Him: ????? Urrrrrr???
Me: ............ I'm just going to the fuse box, I'll come back in a minute to slap the stupid off you.

[DrNomis_44]

Yep, walked in on my brother changing over a single GPO to a dual plug GPO in his room way back when. Coversation went like this:

Me: WTF are you doing?!?!
Him: it was cracked and I want the extra plug
Me: you are not a qualified electrician
Him: It's okay, I've switched it off....(shows me the outlet switch in the off position)
Me: did you at least pull the Fuse or switch off the main switch?
Him: ????? Urrrrrr???
Me: ............ I'm just going to the fuse box, I'll come back in a minute to slap the stupid off you.

Geez, your brother should be grateful to you for saving his life.

[FrankenWashie]

He just didn't get that what he was trying to was dangerous, most people don't realise exactly how dangerous many things around the house are. He'd figured that because he'd turned it off that it was safe to work on.