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Old 15th Feb 2018, 6:46 am   #7
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Default Re: Tants

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Originally Posted by Refugee View Post
Blue ones have a nasty habit of going short circuit.
Duff ones can be fun if there is plenty of power available.
Indeed they can !

I had one blow its top of, which went off like like a rocket, pass over my co-workers head and embed its self as a molten mass into the floor the other side of his bench. This was on new equipment at the back end of the 80s !

If someone’s eye had been in the trajectory path, I shudder to think of the consequences. Be careful out there !
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