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In article <vmyjt9b@dixie.com>, jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes, in part:

>helfman@aero.org (Robert S. Helfman) writes:
>>Funny, I was exactly the same age when I got my first (and last) shock from
>>a sign transformer. I was at a junior high carnival and I set up a
>>Jacob's Ladder. It was nighttime and I was moving it around with the power
>>on. (It seems everyone is sure they're immortal at that age!).

>Yeah.  You and I both.  You'd have loved our electric chair I built when
>I was a yound teenager.  The chair was simple.  A sraightback wooden
>chair had an aluminum plate fastened to the seat and another fastened
>to the back.  The plates were connected to a 15,000 volt neon
>transformer.
	Well, i never got beyond the model-t Tesla Coil stage, at that age, that
	and the school (36" high) Van deGraff.  But some mention seems caled for
	of a reliable friend.  Who tells the story (he was ca 15 years old) of
	stripping a power transformer from a discarded XRay machine...
	'bout 100KV 60 Hz.  Current unknown.  He was drawing arcs from one
	electrode to another when he dropped one.  Energizing the ground.  So
	he couldn't turn it off.

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