Wow, that musta been disappointing. "well, that meter isn't going to be good
for much anything any more".

My disappointing moment was an engine which a "helpful" neighbor had sprayed
ether into the cylinder to start it. What he did was dry otu the cylinder
wall, and sieze it up. I did get it freed up and started. then it threw a
rod. Woulda been helpful if I'd given it a good squirt of outboard motor oil
into the cylinder.

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Christopher A. Young
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"DanaK" wrote in message
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I have retained a very vivid object lesson from long ago, however:
NEVER check the resistance between two legs on a live 3 phase circuit!!
It was toward the end of a long shift and I was trouble shooting a
large dryer we had in the laundry of our hospital and I didn't switch
from ohms to voltage on the little nickel and dime volt meter we had.
Talk about a firecracker going off in your hand! That was tons of fun
....



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DanaK