<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Interestingly, Make Magazine volume 35 (the digital edition just came out today) has a section called "Brushes With Disaster: Readers Share Their Experiments Gone Awry" (pp 66 - 68).</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>The whole volume is entitled "The Danger Issue: Rockets, Flames and Fun"</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>-Eric<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial"
size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Peter Sjoberg <lpaseen@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> lab@artengine.ca <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:23:56 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Lab] Open Question: Dumbest Thing You've Done While Making<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>On 06/27/2013 01:42 PM, <a ymailto="mailto:sincrest256@gmail.com" href="mailto:sincrest256@gmail.com">sincrest256@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>> Picking up a recently unplugged soldering iron like it is a screwdriver<br>> to move it across the workbench burning a nice line across my hand.<br><br>Did something similar. Did go over to a friends workbench and set down<br>on the desk. Did feel that I was sitting on something that felt like a<br>screwdriver I grabbed the non handle side of the screwdriver to remove<br>it
just to discover that it was a 150W soldering iron heating up. While<br>not at full heat it did give some nice marks.<br><br>> <br>> Putting a 16 volt ceramic capacitor into a 30 volt circuit shooting a<br>> stream of sparks 5 feet long was also exciting.<br>> <br>Sending 220V to a power supply set for 110V caused a cap to pop with<br>such a speed it hit the tube lights above and broke it.<br><br>And one more. I had a big TV I was repairing on my desk and of course<br>with the back off. I was in front of it looking at the picture when<br>suddenly it became a thin horizontal line for a split second and a<br>sparking sound came from behind the TV. It was my little sister (I think<br>around 4 years then) that - holding her hand and tears - quietly and<br>quickly exited the room.<br>She knew to not enter my room and absolutely not touch anything, I think<br>that was a good spark on her hand to teach her why because she never<br>came back
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