Re: BOBSMEDS
Back in my youth (mid 1970s when I was about 19) I was a trainee TV engineer for Rediffusion. I was once at a customers house with the back off the TV and the valve-packed chassis angled slightly downwards from its normal vertical position so I could fault find. The customer, an elderly gentleman, sat next to me watching interestedly at what I was doing. Then he did something I suppose he thought might have been useful. He said, "It was sparking a bit round about here," and put his fingers on the PCB in the high voltage area. It sparked once more, using his fingers to earth the current.
"Ow," I think he may have said (or possibly something stronger).
I looked at him, deadpan, saying something like, "I know where to poke my fingers safely. You don't. Don't do that again."
At least he learned his lesson first time around.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
