Re: BIG DUMMY Accident

["Ryan Ries" <spud-at-wf-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

	Heh, I didn't take any offense, I was only being facetious.  I hear all
your safety concerns, and I thank you.  Enough said on this thread, we're
all (err) mature adults here. :)

	Ryan Ries

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> From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: BIG DUMMY Accident
> Date: Thursday, October 05, 2000 7:46 PM
> 
> Original poster: "Tom Russell" <tjruss-at-mindspring-dot-com> 
> 
> Ryan, This may be none of my business, but I want to respond to your
> posting. I don't see anything at all that suggests Steve was trying to
> insult you, or demean you in anyway. He, like all of us is very concerned
> about safety. I believe he is only trying to help save an accident.
Please
> don't take offense at it. Let me tell you a bit about myself. I have been
a
> broadcast engineer for nearly thirty years. I deal with High, high
voltages
> and high currents in broadcast transmitters on almost a daily bases. I
> assure you I am careful in everyway, but some times things go wrong. I
have
> been thrown against a wall, 15 feet away, by accidently coming in contact
> with 12 kilivolts DC!,  the plate circuit of an FM transmitter that
> according to the meters and everything else was dead. I am incrediblly
> lucky, and blessed by God, to be alive. A friend of mine was killed on
that
> same transmitter, in that same way. He had warned me merely a couple
weeks
> before that, to watch that particular circuit. I am going into no further
> details than that, but my point is, All of us on this list are concerned
> with safety first, but accidents do happen. PLEEASE, PLEEASE watch what
you
> are doing!!!! This, I believe, is all any of us are trying to say.
> Thank you for hearing me out.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 4:40 PM
> Subject: Re: BIG DUMMY Accident
> 
> 
> > Original poster: "Ryan Ries" <spud-at-wf-dot-net>
> >
> > Hey, I'm that person with the 10KVA pig who knows absolutely nothing,
and
> > just for the record, I didn't have anything to do with that accident.
:)
> > I'm sorry I can't compare with the inconsumate repository of electrical
> > knowledge stored in your brain, but I don't plan on having a funeral
until
> > I'm 85 or so. :-)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >     Ryan Ries
> >
> > ----------
> > > From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > > Subject: Re: BIG DUMMY Accident
> > > Date: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:42 PM
> > >
> > > Original poster: "Steve Rosenthal" <sdrosen-at-cwia-dot-com>
> > >
> > > What ever happened to the person who had the 10kva pig and was asking
> > > questions which seemed to indicate that they didn't know anything
about
> > > basic electricity? Seems like the last I remember they were trying to
> > figure
> > > a way to hook up to the cloths dryer outlet, then they were asking
> > questions
> > > about ballasting with a dryer element submerged in a tank of water? I
> > truly
> > > hope your reading this, PLEASE BE CAREFUL
> > >
> > > Look folks....the safety messages are something that we need to
> > retinterate
> > > over and over and over, but the sad fact is as numbers of coiler
> > increase,
> > > so do the odds of someone getting badly hurt or killed increase. Do
the
> > > math. Look at the actuarial tables. The reason the high powered
rocketry
> > > hobby got regulated is very probably because someone or several
someones
> > > were injured or killed. Brutal truth I know, but there it is....
> > >
> > > "Nothing is foolproof....cuz fools are so darned ingeniuous!!!"
> > >
> > > Everyone.....PLEASE PLEASE BE VERY VERY CAREFUL!!!!!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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