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[redelitev6]

Oops......At least you are OK, I was about 13 when I had my first experience......

  And how old were you when you had your first electric shock? 

There had to be someone......

Glad to be of service!

[Brikhead]

And how old were you when you had your first electric shock? 

I was about 11 and was fixing an old stereo, I had the covers off and was using a scewdriver to test for dry joints by tapping each component whilst the power was on, I dropped the screw driver into the stereo and reached to pick it up without thinking. I woke up on the other side of the room.

Sadly, I've been there far too many times.

I tend to learn from my mistakes, especially painful ones, although the relays in my friends auto garage door opener do tingle slightly when you can't find a suitably insulated tool.

[Olympia5776]

Yep , you'll check twice in future and that's no bad thing.......
After seeing so many instances of poor wiring over the years I never rely on a circuit breaker prefering to isolate the MCB or fusebox , sometimes even removing the main fuse too , and yes ,as experience has shown for good cause...

[Richie London]

You gotta laughter. I bought a tennis racket fly swat in poundland.tested it with my right hand forgetting about my shoulder. i bloody cried in pain when my arm jerked. 

[Kevin Wood]

Oops......At least you are OK, I was about 13 when I had my first experience......

I was 18.. 18 months! Decided to strip down my bedside light.

Didn't learn, though.

I was rather careful earlier in the year, though, when I found myself in a damp tent trying to fix a valve transmitter during a ham radio contest. 3000 Volts DC at the best part of an Amp. Volts matter when you get to that level, believe me. I doubt a shock from that thing would have been survivable.

Still, we won the contest.

[TheBoy]

I had 2 weeks of school for severe burns after "fixing" the xmas tree lights when I was about 6.

Knocked myself out for about 3 minutes after being blown off a step ladder helping dad fix the garage door.

Other than that, just the usual electric shocks you get playing with mains.

Oh, drilled through a customer's ring main when I was at British Telecom.  But wasn't a problem, she had a gas hob she could make the tea with

[Kevin Wood]

Garage door issues a common theme, then? Don't tell me. Someone had stolen some metal from it to fix a TD.

..and tea with customers.. The BT man always knocks twice.

[YZ250]

Makes the old ticker go a bit don't it Webby.   

After a day of power off, power on, power off, power on, I lost my bearings and wired up our boiler running live. I didn't realise until my arm touched a copper pipe and earthed out. 
Wakes you up to the danger doesn't it. 

On a lesser scale, when motorbikes had metal plug caps, you could hit the starter when a mate was holding the plug cap and give them a healthy shock. 

[Seth]

Garage door issues a common theme, then? Don't tell me. Someone had stolen some metal from it to fix a TD.

..and tea with customers.. The BT man always knocks twice.

'Borrowed' is the term that your looking for, dear boy .... just it never got returned .... IIRC?

[Webby the Bear]

the offending piece of elecktrickery equipment. i seemed to have fixed it after feeling sorry for myself for half hour but just in case it goes again do they sell these things anymore that i can simply rewire in......when the powers off obviously? 
 

[PhilRich]

Oops......At least you are OK, I was about 13 when I had my first experience......

What's your sexual experiences got to do with a serious subject like electroelecution

[PhilRich]

yes the first is always the worse trust me and it is'nt always the shock that gets sometimes...its what you do with your hand afterwards...i.e what you hit when you pull your hand away at 1000 mph 


just remeber VOLTS jolt but AMPS kill

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It's Volts that jolts
but Mills that kills!

[Vamps]

Oops......At least you are OK, I was about 13 when I had my first experience......

What's your sexual experiences got to do with a serious subject like electroelecution

No one mentioned sex you daft old bugger, just your memory playing tricks again......

[Martian]

It's Volts that jolts
but Mills that kills!

Technically speaking, both are required to kill 

[Martian]

the offending piece of elecktrickery equipment. i seemed to have fixed it after feeling sorry for myself for half hour but just in case it goes again do they sell these things anymore that i can simply rewire in......when the powers off obviously? 

It's not an "off the shelf" part, but the manufacturer may very well sell the switch assembly.

You can probably buy the switches on their own (as it will be them that's failing if anything), but I'm not so sure that suggesting you pick up a soldering iron is a good idea after your tale of woe