Reply to: Been zapped by a kitchen sink.

[shaunbhoy]

What is it? Some sort of Cat Electric Converter?

[realityhack]

[Sysman]

I am very susceptible to static in shops. I worked out that if I hold a key and discharge the static via the key and ground (such as the escalator handle) it sparks but does not hurt.

I suffered from static shocks at one particular client. I had to steel my nerves for the inevitable zap from a cubicle frame on the way out. If I managed to escape the office unscathed, some other part of the building would get me.

[EternalOptimist]

I saw a spectacular zapping about 30 odd years ago. Working on a 7/4 anti aircraft radar in Wiltshire on a very hot summers day.
The magnetron wasnt firing, so the radar wasnt transmitting, and I was doing some diagnostics on the Thyratron, which provides a 25,000 volt blast that fires the magnetron.

I was being very careful. 25k can arc a looong way.

Then the artificer sergeant pulls up, jumps out and shouts 'whats taking so long over here ?' his face was dripping sweat as he shoved his face towards the kit and BANG.

25,000 volts arced onto the end of his beak and blasted him of off his feet, into the middle of the last week probbly.

He had a permenant little black spot on the end of his nose after that. suprised he didnt go cross-eyed

[xoggoth]

I feel a small tingle every time on touching the shower taps at the gym. Mentioned it to them months ago but nowt has been done. Nobody dead yet AFAIK.

[norrahe]

WCHS +

[suityou01]

When I was a teenager I lent on a live transformer inside a hi-fi unit that I was fixing. I don't know if it was the input or output side but I remember shaking like a bastard, luckily I fell over and away from it (it was on the floor and I was lent over it).

I'm exceedingly careful with leccy since then.

Hence the unruly pubes, I'm guessing.

[Cliphead]

[Cliphead]

Pushing a trolley through the clothes section in Tesco (shortcut to the fruit & veg), results in a painful static belt from the first person to brush past.

[Paddy]

I copped a huge belt of static from the hand rail on an escalator in Peter Jones, then another and another. ...

And the annoying and puzzling thing was, no one else seemed affected, even with their hands on the rail!

I am very susceptible to static in shops. I worked out that if I hold a key and discharge the static via the key and ground (such as the escalator handle) it sparks but does not hurt.

[OwlHoot]

I reckon somebody else is going to get a severe shock and feel rough for an hour or two once cojak settles down enough to notice this post

That sounds like it's probably more serious than a bit of static

I copped a huge belt of static from the hand rail on an escalator in Peter Jones, then another and another. ...

And the annoying and puzzling thing was, no one else seemed affected, even with their hands on the rail!

[cojak]

Cojak, empty yer inbox...

Done!

[NickFitz]

If you had been chained to it properly in the first place the static electricity wouldn't have built up to dangerous levels!!!

I reckon somebody else is going to get a severe shock and feel rough for an hour or two once cojak settles down enough to notice this post

It hurt (hence the swearing) and I felt as if I'd just run 50 metres for about an hour after. I will mention it to someone on Monday.

That sounds like it's probably more serious than a bit of static

[Cliphead]

Cojak, empty yer inbox...

[d000hg]

I felt as if I'd just run 50 metres

I think your fitness might be more of a concern then.