• addie@feddit.uk
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    17 hours ago

    You’ll give me traumatic flashbacks to our electricians checking the industrial overload settings by dropping a spanner onto the busbars. If the switchgear tripped out before the spanner melted, then the settings must be correct.

    • ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 hours ago

      I’m reminded of that video of the two guys in an attic with a massive transformer and then using the ends to melt steel tools. I also wonder what wonderfully fun lung diseases those guys ended up with

    • Sabata@ani.social
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      17 hours ago

      How else am I supposed to check if the “kill your entire family twice” capacitor out of a microwave is angry or not?