Jer's turn.....

[stuwee]

Since I've abused all the the big guys, I didn't want you to feel left out.... you sick Dawg what the F is up wit that car? Love your checkered do boy!

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Jerry's got a Franken', Freakin' ride

 

[speakerman1]

I think that boy was hurt by those 5000 volts. Jerry will you come do my scooter like that. I have a trunk I can put on it and room under the seat and behind me.

Larry

 

[laatsch55]

After all that I can't get by the guy's hairdo.

 

[speakerman1]

After all that I can't get by the guy's hairdo.

It was the 5000 volts I tell you. There may not have been many amps; but that still has to hurt.

Larry

 

[laatsch55]

Well, thats true, i've taken a few jolts and its not the volts, its the amps. I once took a hit from 480 in a motor starter panel. Was tracing a short and running my hand up a wire which had chafed on the backside where you couldn't see it, touched the bare part, got lit , turned arount to try and get to the one ton, made two steps then my legs quit working. Went down for about 5 minutes. Finally everything started to work again.

 

[jbeckva]

Since I've abused all the the big guys, I didn't want you to feel left out.... you sick Dawg what the F is up wit that car? Love your checkered do boy!

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Heeeey??!! Nah, I keep the car "stock" nowadays. About 15 years ago, I "pimped" my old Sentra out with a big ole' bass box, two big nasty amps and a passive EQ. That's about how drastic I used to be..

Now I just pimp my room with home audio stuff.. works for me, lol.

 

[jbeckva]

Well, thats true, i've taken a few jolts and its not the volts, its the amps. I once took a hit from 480 in a motor starter panel. Was tracing a short and running my hand up a wire which had chafed on the backside where you couldn't see it, touched the bare part, got lit , turned arount to try and get to the one ton, made two steps then my legs quit working. Went down for about 5 minutes. Finally everything started to work again.

Man that reminds me. Back in me "Nav" days, there was a supervisor I knew that was going to actually pull a recommendation for advancement on one of her people. The incident behind it was the "young airman" getting ready to troubleshoot a P3 Orion radar... with a meter set on resistance.... and the radar ON. That sucker in some places has a good 30-40 KV's LIVE. Luckily the supervisor was watching, but man... that was close...

Of course I also had my dumb moments too. While working on an HF amp out of the same aircraft (800 watt monster), I had a perplexing "issue". "Why were the little lights on the test appliance lighting up every time I keyed the transmit???". What really puzzled me about that was the fact that the lights (by way of the switches inside the test appliance) were NOT connected to anything. I puzzled about that for a few minutes.. man, that was really "odd"...

Turned out my ground was faulty on the cable going between the amp and the dummy load. That sucker was radiating enough energy to light INCANDESCENT bulbs. With ME in there not two feet from it!

How I was still able to have a kid after that, I don't know....

 

[speakerman1]

My dumbest move was testing an auto coil with a spark plug wire tester that looks like a ink pen with a light so you can see if the wires are good. Well I put it into the coil. Needless to say the coil was good and I couldn't let lose of it as he keeps turning the car over. 10,000 volts hurts and impedes your ability to tell the person to quit. Never did it again.

Larry

 

[stuwee]

I want that hat! And are those dried up monkey paws on his necklace?

Great stories fools Glad ya'll made it through them. I'm trying to remember how many volts the 'Logans do, 4,000 IIRC, there's a reason you have to unplug them for at least 12 hours for the caps to discharge before you work on them

 

[laatsch55]

I think I respect big caps the most, they have relatively small voltage compared to the current they can generate. For a test I rigged a screwdriver to drop on a group of 4 140000mfd/24 volt caps fully charged, needless to say the screwdriver shank was vaporized and 2 of the4 caps went to cap heaven. The blast was so loud a neighbor called the cops because he thought there was gunfire in the neighborhood. It did sound like a 357 going off.

 

[stuwee]

Jerry, Dale says "Silly Brown Shoes"

Not quite sure what it means but, he says you'll get it

 

[jbeckva]

Hah.. yeah, I got it. He must have been "surface" navy (aka blackshoe). Tell him my ole man was a blackshoe too - started as a seaman recruit (Radioman) and retired as LCDR - back when they actually promoted due to ability/leadership and not how many butts were puckered up to, hehe.

I went in around 1988. When did Top Gun come out? (yeah.. me=SUCKER). I was goan fly those there F14's, I was...

 

[stuwee]

Dale's a jerk off anyway, don't mind him. I don't, he was on the USS Merrill DD-976 as a ET from '77 to '82.

 

[jbeckva]

Wasn't puttin' him down or nothin'... just "relatin"...

If he was an ET, he may have worked with RM's in the Communications department... so he'd probably actually "relate" to me ole' man...

To put it more in perspective. "Brown Shoe" refers to what is termed "Airedales"... or the part of the Nav that is the aircraft community - Pilots and enlisted that were trained to work on aircraft. Just like "Black Shoe" refers to the surface fleet - those not directly associated with squadrons or aircraft maintenance. ET is the "Black Shoe" equivalent of what I was (AT, or Aviation Electronics Technician). With the aircraft community, Chiefs and above literally wore brown shoes (or could wear them), whereas nobody else did. We all had "affectionate" terms like this for each other ... Submariners are known as "bubbleheads", for example.

The "promote based on actual ability/leadership" part of my reply is referring to the later years (I JUST missed the REAL years of the 70's and 80's). You don't know how many knuckleheads I saw get good evaluations based on doing everything else *except* actually doing their assigned job effectively. The Navy placed emphasis on the wrong areas at that time, IMHO... one reason why I didn't stay for the full 20 years.

 

[stuwee]

Check out those prototype cruise misslie launchers on the front of the Merrill, too cool for school.