"Ken Davey" wrote in message
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gfulton wrote:
"Ken Davey" wrote in message
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gfulton wrote:
"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:28:51 -0700, "Ken Davey"
wrote:
A couple of lifetimes ago when I worked for the Canadian National
Railroad we had a book.
This book was called "the Uniform Code Of Operating Operating
Rules (UCOR). This rule book was a distillate of several
centuries of global railroading experience.
In theory, if all the rules were adhered to nothing could go
wrong. It was (unofficially) understood that if one knew *ALL*
the reasons for any given rule and *ALL* that could go wrong if
said rule was broken one could selectively break it.
Any defect in your reasoning that led to a disaster resulted in
(at the least) brownie points (get enough and it was bye bye job)
and at the worst, jail time.
When I was a greenhorn someone decided to break one of of those
rules to save a couple of seconds.
Rather than seem officious I went along with this.
The result was I almost got six people killed.
It was so close that, to this day, I break out in a sweat just
thinking about it.
And it happened more than thirty years ago!
The moral?
Before you break/bend the rules think long and hard about ALL the
possible consequences.
This is not a 'the towers fell because of an engineering
oversight' kind of thing.
It is a 'the rule was there for a damn good reason' worked out by
your betters.
You might just get away with a non-code installation and you may
just get someone killed, all for the saving of a few miserable
dollars.
Good advice.
I'm trying not to belabor the obvious here, but the " Those who
don't
know what's hot and what's not. And the people who
write these regulations are certainly not anyone's "betters", they
just understand the dangers to linemen from people without any
understanding of electricity backfeeding the distribution circuits.
I'm not one of them. Once again, a lineman will_never_get zapped
from any current that I backfeed into the circuit. It's not going to
happen. My circuitry will never be operated by anyone but myself or
my sons, who know just exactly the dangers and the correct
procedure. We know what we're doing, and judging from Mr.
Foreman's posts, he does also. Unlike him, I just simply can't
stomach safety fascists. And, yeah, feel free to worry Mr. Davey.
And you feel gree to worry as well.
Best case - you won't be around to see the results of your flaunting
of the regulations.
Ken.
Don't hold your breath, tough guy.
I note in your apology post the following words
"damn good
reason" Mr. Davey espouses is in place for those individuals without
any understanding of electrical power, circuitry, and distribution."
My point is if one doesn't have a *perfect* understanding (and I doubt you
do reading your posts) one shouldn't mess with the rules *at all*
Ken. (tough guy?)
Apology? Worked as youth doing electrical work in a production plant with
440 3 phase and the control circuits for same. In the 35 yrs. since have
been an aircraft electrician on Lockheed L-1011's, B747's, B707's, DC-6's,
767, Airbus, etc. etc. Been badly shocked several times when someone I
worked with didn't see the "do not activate" placard I placed plain view in
the cockpit and pushed in circuit breakers. 400 cycle, 220 volt hurts like
a bitch. I can't imagine anyone more careful than myself about exposing a
person to a hot circuit. It will_not_happen to any lineman working on my
outage. Just exactly which part of my post led you to believe that I don't
have an understanding of power distribution? "Tough guy" is a derogatory
term used here on the flight line when you run across a particularly
obnoxious know-it-all. Most people with any sense grow out of that stage.
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