Off topic -- playing with electrons (was Re: DG Aviion video)

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Fri Dec 4 20:54:17 1998

Daniel T. Burrows wrote:
>
> >It was in the USAF electronics tech school where we used to play
> >catch with capacitors. And worse. Caps weren't known as
> >"rectum-fires" for nothing.
> Another words you fished the leads up through the holes in the lab stools as
> well?

Those chairs had been in service in those electronics classrooms
for decades. No need to drill holes. Hell, I think some of them
were plated through.
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Received on Fri Dec 04 1998 - 20:54:17 GMT

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