I can confirm the radar story, or something very like it at Decca in the old
days, it involved an end off a biro suitably bent as i recall, so the system
could be energised with its top removed. i never heard of any fatalities
though.
Brian

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On 26/03/15 08:49, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:50:56 +0000, harryagain wrote:

We used to remove fuses and pocket them.

Electrician who fitted a few lights for us a few years ago inspected the
circuit, went to the fusebox, pulled the fuse, and pocketed it. He saw me
watching and commented *never* leave the fuse next to the fusebox. He
told a story of a lad who was an apprentice with him (must have been
1960s) who was up a ladder when someone replaced the fuse which had been
left on top of the fusebox. He didn't die of electrocution, but from the
fall from the ladder


In my yoof when I worked in Radar, the cabinets containing EHT for the
magnetrons etc, had microswitches on the doors to cut the power when the
doors were open. Of course this made them impossible to test 'live' but it
was discovered that a 1960s sixpenny bit provided the exact dimensions
necessary to wedge the microswitch and allow full doors open operation...

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