Re: Bonehead auto repair mishap

[Bob Bownes <bownes@seiri.com>]

You're lucky. I recall a guy I worked with was missing a finger due to 
the short being his ring. Was pretty much instantaneous and bloodless. 
finger and ring left behind on the posts. Not pretty.

Gbouff1@aol.com wrote:

> It seems that while trying to adjust the linkage my watch band made a 
> complete circuit between the metal heater-valve pipe and the battery lead to 
> the starter selenoid.  It's amazing how fast 12 volts of DC current and a few 
> hundred amps will heat up a watch band.  I now have second degree burns that 
> look a lot like the design of the reverse side of my watch band.

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