On Wednesday 23 December 2015 21:19:33 John Hasler wrote: > Gene H writes: > > Having read some of the extra's for that, its no wonder the bid > > estimates are 400% of what the takeoff guy totals up. > > We had an in-house construction operation for small projects of the > sort I designed. They were mostly pretty good but my biggest problems > came from their attempts to save money, such as using left-over 90 ohm > IT coax for a CATV project instead of the 70 cable I had specified. > The hospital was horribly mismanaged, though. > > > And my little red pocket hot wire sniffer still manages to go > > berzerk when within sensing distance to some of the innocent looking > > stuff sitting on the prep rooms counters. I found 4 of those > > flashlight things they put a plastic cup over to look into an ear, > > that could be lethal so far. > > No, not really. That devices is only useful for finding energized > wires behind walls. It tells you nothing about lethality. All sorts > of harmless things can set it off.
My final test for potential lethality is to make sure I am insulated, then brush the back of my hand against it very gently. If it feels like it is vibrating as the back of your hand slides against it, its too hot to get between it and a grounded object. The back of ones hand is amazingly sensitive to that sort of thing, and it might save your life to remember that, everybody reading this. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
