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IHateSprouts tells us they once avoided getting caught up in an IRA bomb attack by missing a train. Tell us how you've dodged the Grim Reaper, or simply avoided a bit of trouble.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 12:31)
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My front offside headlight
Had an intermitant fault which I decided to fix.

I turned the lights on so I could see when they were working or not and set about tweaking the connectors and things.
Nothing going so I gave it a good blast of WD40 to displace any water, which did nothing.
So I decided the connectors were dirty so set about giving them a scrub with some steel wool.

I strongly suggest against scrubbing a live electrical circuit with a piece of WD40 soaked steel wool.

I got quite the shock. Not from the 24v electric, but from when the handful of steel wool suddenly burst into flames.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 13:44, Reply)

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