From: "George Richardson" <gprtech@frontiernet.net>
> This is not an uncommon occurrence. It's the reason that we people who
> work around electricity as part of our jobs don't wear watches or rings.
>
> I've actually met a person who lost a finger when he completed a circuit
> with his ring.
There are number of ways to do that with a ring around machine shops. There
is one particularly sickening thing you do to yourself with file, a lathe
and a watchband.
Mr. Mickelson, one of my electronics instructors back in the stone age, told
his new wife when he was a young man that he ought not wear a wedding ring.
She insisted, and he foolishly agreed.
Soon, he vaporized the ring. He told his wife that the scar from the
third-degree burn around his finger was his permanent wedding ring.
I never wear my ring because rings drive me crazy. So I don't have to worry
about that around machinery or power.
I do have a metal watchband, so I do remove it when I work.
Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa 65/2597, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 TR4 CT2846L
pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/ http://www.lotusowners.com
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