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The Old/Illegal Electrics and Electrical Disaster Stories Thread

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  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Oh shoot you're right! @-)
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited June 2016 Posts: 18,281
    I don't want to stir things up or anything but...

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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    " Get your hands off me, you damned dirty ape !" .... -is what my wife says to me
    most weekends. :D
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    I have never bothered a monkey, so I should be good when the revolution inevitably comes.
  • MrcogginsMrcoggins Following in the footsteps of Quentin Quigley.
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    I hate every chimp I see from chimpan A to chimpan Zeee !.....
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    When they learn to read, you are in trouble.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Well they already write novels on their typewriters...
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    ...... an infinite amount
  • BMW_with_missilesBMW_with_missiles All the usual refinements.
    edited June 2016 Posts: 3,000
    Monkeys are responsible for many famous novel. Like the Twilight series. :))
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Could explain 50 shades of grey or the Dan Down books ?
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Or this thread.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited June 2016 Posts: 18,281
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Or this thread.

    I wondered why I was eating so many bananas!
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    One time I was moving the location of my wireless internet router and I accidentally plugged in the wrong AC adapter which looked exactly like the correct one and I fried the circuit. There went $50 down the toilet.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    It used to be a standard practice, that if a fuse went in a plug, a piece of silver cigarette
    packet, paper would work.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Murdock wrote: »
    One time I was moving the location of my wireless internet router and I accidentally plugged in the wrong AC adapter which looked exactly like the correct one and I fried the circuit. There went $50 down the toilet.

    Did you install it in the bathroom? You mustn t do that. Especially not in the shower.
  • GerardGerard
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    This story from "Not Always Learning". Really funny :

    https://notalwayslearning.com/the-power-of-a-kenya-do-attitude/30445
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    This story made the 6 o'clock news on BBC Radio 4 on 17 July 2017. Thankfully the baboon was only singed in the incident:

    http://www.africanews.com/2017/07/17/baboon-hospitalized-after-causing-massive-power-cut-in-zambia/
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    British Plugs Are Better Than All Other Plugs, And Here's Why
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Thunderpussy wrote: »


    British Plugs Are Better Than All Other Plugs, And Here's Why

    Very interesting. Thank you for sharing, @Thunderpussy.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    My automatic garage door opener blew a fuse not too long ago. I had to undo one of the springs just so it would shut. If I want to keep it open for extended periods of time I have to put the spring back on.
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Well they already write novels on their typewriters...

    Which explains the script of SPECTRE as it was bananas. ;)
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    SaintMark wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Well they already write novels on their typewriters...

    Which explains the script of SPECTRE as it was bananas. ;)

    Touché. :)
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
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    A bit of a problem if they go underwater though!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    As you can see, they were aware of that. Nature always finds a way.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    As you can see, they were aware of that. Nature always finds a way.

    Indeed, and thank goodness for it!
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Why Electricity In Edwardian Homes Proved Deadly | Hidden Killers | Timeline

  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    ElectroBOOM on YouTube is great:

  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    I know that guy is just trying to portray bad examples, but one must really be an idiot to try and use his "heating elements".

    I'm not really afraid of dealing with electricity like exchanging plugs or installing an additional wall socket, not to mention connecting stuff like ceiling lamps, but I do use the most basic precautions, like switching off the fuse and not mixing up differently-coloured leads. Plus, if something happened like a live wire suddenly being grounded, the fault-current circuit breaker would react immediately.

    The worst kind of daredevil amateur mess I ever saw was over 33 years ago on a business trip with a colleague to what was then still West Berlin. Having some time left before the flight back, we went to see a friend (or maybe even girlfriend) of his, who studied in the city and lived in a turn-of-the-last-century, more or less run-down apartment with some other people. In at least one room, they had two parallel BLANK copper wires (although out of normal reach - this being a very high old ceiling) stretched from wall to wall, with the regular 220-V mains leads as well as a 60- or even 100-watt incandescent light bulb soldered to those two wires. No part of that was insulated, except I suppose the wires' attachment to the walls, or it would have shorted. I was actually happy when I got out of that place alive.
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