They're in India, what are they going to do?I'd be too scared to do that. What if they said yes?!
'I punched a Goldfish' and other strange things you have done today.
- Thread starter Mad Doug Biker
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I went for an interview at the then Lanchester Poly in Coventry in 1974. I remember being shown round a rather scary basement in which lots of transformers were humming away. There was a big Faraday cage inside which a large ceramic insulator stack was hanging. The kind of thing that high voltage cables hang from under pylons. In fact, those humming transformers were supplying very high voltages to cables hanging from the insulator.
The lecturer giving us the guided tour had a rather impish grin on his face when he asked me to press a button which caused brine to be sprayed over the insulator. The resultant miniature lightning bolt which arced over the insulator made me and the other would-be electrical engineering students leap 3 feet into the air in terror!
I made a mental note to stick to studying electronics and to leave the high voltage stuff to people of a less nervous disposition!
It is fun. Our Rail and HV infrastructure transformers have to be lightning and short circuit tested. This means going to a test house where they are shown a couple of million volts impulse. The control room is in a bunker and the viewing window is a two inches thick toughened glass.I went for an interview at the then Lanchester Poly in Coventry in 1974. I remember being shown round a rather scary basement in which lots of transformers were humming away. There was a big Faraday cage inside which a large ceramic insulator stack was hanging. The kind of thing that high voltage cables hang from under pylons. In fact, those humming transformers were supplying very high voltages to cables hanging from the insulator.
The lecturer giving us the guided tour had a rather impish grin on his face when he asked me to press a button which caused brine to be sprayed over the insulator. The resultant miniature lightning bolt which arced over the insulator made me and the other would-be electrical engineering students leap 3 feet into the air in terror!
I made a mental note to stick to studying electronics and to leave the high voltage stuff to people of a less nervous disposition!
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
Well, I touched my small intestine today! 
Col5632
Guru
- Location
- Cowdenbeath
Well, I touched my small intestine today!
To start with I defo thought you were going to say something else
I will resistor laugh at that.
I was LED to believe you could do better than that.
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
Stop conducting these awful jokes, it Hertz!
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
To start with I defo thought you were going to say something else
My.... small toe?
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
I should have said, if you can, tell us what strange things you have done or are doing with, preferably a bit of creative wording!
Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
- Location
- West Wickham
Puddles
Do I need to get the spray plaster out?
- Location
- Hamble, Southampton
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
Not odd or anything, but I have to start up a charity (you heard that right) for a group I'm involved with to restore the old Glasgow Blue Train at Summerlee.
Been looking at the OSCR website today forstuff things
Been looking at the OSCR website today for
Puddles
Do I need to get the spray plaster out?
- Location
- Hamble, Southampton
Only in the case of the first 10 minutes of my working day... and even then I got stood up by 315 parents so it was a very short working day.... then after I did "Stuff"
