Re: Marx on "Myth Busters"

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com> 

Well, he's half right :)

It never happened to Dr. R. It happened to one of our members.

Me.

While testing the Mercury coil for a private demonstration at Geekhouse 
about 2 summers ago the operator (who had through knowledge of coils, 
coiling safety, etc, he was just an a$$h-at-le) I was tuning the coil with 
him. It's a 6" coil capable of 6-8' arcs running a SRSG and Geek Group 
MMC's off of a farm of 15/60's. He was on the control cabinet.

He gave me a "SAFE" command and I moved in to adjust a tap point on the 
primary. As I stepped away I stood up and HARRRRRANNNNNGGGG I caught about 
a half-second of a direct strike to the right side of my nose, I felt it go 
out my right big toe.

He toggled the power "as a joke because I "looked" like I was in a safe 
position". There was a half-dozen people there who knew nothing about coils 
so I refrained from beating the living p*** out of him at that moment. I 
was shaking so bad I was having enough of a hard tie trying to play it off 
because of the newbs there.

It hurt in a way I cannot possibly describe, and I'm a guy who has spent a 
great deal of his life healing from something or other. The gap was spun up 
to 360bps and I could feel every bang for that half-second, which felt like 
an hour. I had to take a few seconds just to make sure I wasn't dead.

I was Incredibly lucky. Transom died from a ground-arc. It was one of the 
most terrifying stupid things I've ever done. Jeff (the moron) obviously 
never touched one of our coils again, he was also immediately kicked out of 
the Group, and from Geekhouse. I haven't talked to him in years.

The Geek Group has since improved our coil setup procedures, an event like 
that is now absolutly impossible, and I'm a LOT more finaky on who I'll let 
on a control console for ANYTHING. If I'm tuning, the only one I'll let on 
the board is Mark. Partly because not only is he my best friend in the 
world, he's also second-in-command of The Group and he knows that if he 
kills me, he's stuck running the show ;)

We obviously don't publish such a huge screwup very much. But here, it's 
important for people to know that mistakes DO happen. This wasn't an 
accident, this was intentional, Jeff did it deliberately as a stupid joke, 
and very easily could have cost someone a life for his stunt. I'm very 
grateful that I'm not the 4th coiling fatality.

For those of you that do that sparks to the fingers stuff with small coils, 
it felt NOTHING like that. I've taken hits from 6" arcs on Steve's coils. 
They prick a little, this HURT ALL OVER. Don't try it at home.


Christopher "Should have Ducked" Boden Geek#1
President / C.E.O. / Alpha Geek
The Geek Group
www.thegeekgroup-dot-org
Because the Geek shall inherit the Earth!

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change 
the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
     - André Gide, 1869 - 1951





>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Marx on "Myth Busters"
>Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 12:56:22 -0700
>
>Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com>
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>
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>Lets bust another myth.
>
>Actually, that never happened.  It struck the edge of the room directly over
>our heads.  It did scare us though.
>
>Dr. Resonance
>
>Resonance Research Corporation
>E11870 Shadylane Rd.
>Baraboo   WI   53913
> >
> > Dont know about that, but I think somewhere I read
> > that Doc Resonance once got struck in the head by one
> > of Bill Wysock's coil arcings, but he just shrugged it
> > off. This might be in the early pupman archives...Must
> > not have hurt that much, I guess, but I dont think I
> > would want that to happen to me !
> > HDN
> >
> >
> >
>

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