Funny as Hell - Electrical screw-ups

[Pappy!]

I had tears in my eyes watching this guy!

https://www.facebook.com/172547052803759/videos/990120077713115/

[Jess Tolbirt]

altho its funny i believe he is doing a demo video,, no way can you have so much nice equipt and not know how to use it and have this many accidents and not be dead,,but the shocks with the coil are funny as hell..

[RainMaker]

[Lyonardo]

Yeah, that guy is insane!
He has a show on youtube called electroboom... Actually eletroBOOM!

[sandy]

He needs to go to the middle east as a bomb making instructor.

[Patrick]

I couldn't finish watching that, I can't stop laughing. I'm laughing so much i'm crying. That guy is an absolute moron. A funny as hell moron, but, still a moron.

It actually just has to be a spoof. 12v or 120v doesn't hit that hard. But, 20K from a coil does get your attention.

If he was recruited as a foreign bomb maker we wouldn't have any more issues or worries.

[John Schmidt]

That's a riot and I agree, it has to be staged....but still funny. Him testing the heat of a soldering iron brings back a memory of when I was in the AF stationed in Portsmouth, NH. To check the heat of the soldering gun in our shop, I'd hold it NEAR my lips. Our resident Zero asked me one day what I was doing, so I simply told him I was testing the heat. Not once did I think beyond that it would have consequences. A couple hours later I heard a scream and he goes running out of the shop holding his mouth, I went over to his bench and wouldn't you know it....there lay his soldering gun, piping hot. Dumbass had a big burn mark on both upper and lower lip and a spot on his chin. He lodged a complaint with our NCOIC but after I explained what happened, it was dropped. Our friend....he was given a job driving a truck on the flight line delivering the repairmen from various shops out to the planes to work on them.

That's the same guy that always took out his lunch box at exactly five min. before noon and set it on the corner of his bench. Then went to the latrine to wash up. One day, one of my shop buddies had been repairing a stable platform used in bombing systems and had run up one of the gyros which turned out to be bad. The gyro was still spinning at over 30k rpm so he stuck it in the guy's lunch box that day. The guy walks in, grabbed his lunch box and headed out the door. All was OK until he turned to go down the hall to the lounge area, at which time the lunch box didn't follow. Darn thing almost broke his arm, was funny when it happened but felt kinda sorry for the guy.

[Oss]

I finished it

 had to stop half way thru cause I was crying from laughing so hard


I have elecrocuted and burned myself ONCE as a teen while soldering a connection on a radio that was on,  not fun

[Romeo]

Yea, he's all over YouTube, but I laugh just as hard every time I watch.

[Jess from VA]

I am not great with electrical.  But I do know that you turn the power off to do all the work.  Then stand back and hit a switch (or button).  The smoke may leave the wires, but you don't get poked.

Speaking of which, my garbage disposal stopped working.  I know it has juice going to the unit, because when I turn it on, smoke starts coming out.   

[Bighead]

I didn't find anything funny in that vid just a dumbass being a dumbass

[Patrick]

I am not great with electrical.  But I do know that you turn the power off to do all the work.  Then stand back and hit a switch (or button).  The smoke may leave the wires, but you don't get poked.

Speaking of which, my garbage disposal stopped working.  I know it has juice going to the unit, because when I turn it on, smoke starts coming out.   

Most disposers have a circuit breaker that can be found on the underside. But, if yours is smoking then I don't think thats been tripped. Also most of them have an allen wrench attached to the bottom that can be inserted into the lower shaft to dislodge the obstruction. If there is no wrench then 2 lengths of sticks can be inserted from the top and wedged while being turned to turn and free up the shaft.

[Jess Tolbirt]

also if there is a nut in the middle of the disposer on the inside you can use an extension and a socket to free it up, but that only works if you let some of the smoke out of the motor,,if you let it all out then a new disposall is in order

[Jess from VA]

Yeah, thanks guys.  I already used the supplied allen wrench to clear any blockage, and there is none, she spins freely.

My kitchen sink drain goes down into the concrete pad (copper pipe) (single story side of a three-level split), and developed serious blockages years ago, and I had to get a plumber on the roof (thru the vent) to use a power snake, several long times.  He even put a vid camera in there.  I either have a tree root or the foundation pad has moved a bit, kinking the pipe.

With that in mind, I don't put so much as a pea or grain of rice down my sink if at all possible, even though I have the disposal.  Being this careful, I have had no backups for a long time, because if it can't be cleared, I'll have to tear out the cabinets and jackhammer the floor concrete for a new drain, a nightmare I never want to go through. (Bill Gurney/Grumpy posted up his fun with a similar problem a while back).  If that ever happens, I think I'll just run the kitchen sink drain through the wall out to my driveway (like 4-5 feet).  Screw code.

So I don't really need or use the disposal, except it really powers the water down thru the pipe, which I periodically do/did as a preventative practice.  That is no longer happening.  I'll have to get down there and see what I can about the smoking part, that is not good and a house fire risk.  I have taped the switch, and will disconnect it electrically if the smoke continues to leak out.  

Given these factors, I can see no reason to replace the disposal if it is FUBAR.

Thoughts, advice?

[hubcapsc]

Thoughts, advice?

Put the smoke back in, and it will be fine 

-Mike

[Michvalk]

When I got married the first time, my parents gave us an old television, (black and white) to help set up out household. Moved across the state, and when the living room was set up, I switched on the tv to check the picture. Didn't come on. Looked through the back, through the vent holes, and noticed That none of the tubes were lit up. So, thinking one of the tube got dislodged in the move, I started wiggling the tubes, to make sure they were all tight in the sockets. That's when I learned all I needed to know about capacitors. When I woke up, there was a large hole in the drywall, and smoke coming off my hair. I learned, the when stuff electrical is broke, it's gonna stay broke.

[Grumpy]

That reminds me of some thing I did at work, we had these 800 volt caps that are about the size of a gallon can. Most of the tech's knew to connect a large resistor across the terminals to bleed them off, so they were not dangerous. I had a new tech that changed 4 of them and just sat them on the bench. I told him of the procedure to safe them, and got a smirk and said they are ok when not hooked up. I handed him an old screw driver and told him to bridge the terminals to check them.  Blew the end off the screw driver.  Took me a month to even get him to go near one must less remove one from the train.
I will never forget his expression when the screw driver went up in smoke.

[Serk]

He needs to go to the middle east as a bomb making instructor.

Ironically enough, he's Iranian, and got his Bachelor of Applied Science degree from the University of Tehran. (And then got his Master of Applied Science degree from Simon Fraser university in Canada.)

[Serk]

Oh yeah, and if that just whetted your appetite for more, here's... more...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pmfr5CGDKY

[FryeVRCCDS0067]

As an industrial electrician, and veteran of a few spark and smoke shows, all I can say is what a riot. Almost had to stop it and catch my breath a time or two.

I repair CNC machine equipment and do the plant electrical jobs. I've noticed some of the machinists seem to have a bit of an electrical phobia, so when I notice one watching me work I usually have to pretend to get shocked a time or two. Then I remind them that "electricity is our friend".