We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bob Eager
saying something like:

I found that if you cut through a live ring circuit with ordinary wire
cutters, you end up with those two extra wire stripping notches after
the flash and the bang... I found the resulting wire cutters to be
extremely useful, but unfortunately mislaid them about 10 years later. I
guess I can always make another one ;-)

You don't get the chance these days - the RCD will flip first.

I still have the set I 'made' in 1969... .-)

I had a set that a 'friend' made later than that, by the simple
expedient of using them to cut something far too hard.