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"I know a railwayman of 40-odd years' service," says Juan Quar, "and he tells me a new gruesome yarn each time we meet. Last week's was of checking the time on the wristwatch of a severed arm he'd just collected after a track fatality."

Tell us the horrible stories you tease the new hires with, or that you've been told.
NB By definition, these are probably all made up. Roll with it

(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:33)
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Really? Welders need a return path. That either means that your "steel beams" and the welding machine had to be connected together, or they shared a common earth. In neither case could anything be fed back into the transformer to be stepped up.

So bollocks to that. Either you didn't understand what was happening or you're lying.
(ubergeekian, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 0:33, 5 replies)

I'd have assumed the LV side of a transformer making a conversion of that magnitude would be fairly low resistance. Could be they were welding the nominally positive line with the return path through the coil to ground for some reason
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 0:36, closed)
don't bother trying to reason with such blatant trolls, save yourself some time and report them to the law

(I helped save b3ta! The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 0:56, closed)
Even then
the most the primary would see would be a fairly small bit of the welding voltage, which ain't high.
(ubergeekian, Wed 11 Sep 2013, 20:37, closed)
Being right is really important to you isn't it?

(I helped save b3ta! edjogs Collared doves are shit., Sun 8 Sep 2013, 0:48, closed)
Yes
But then, I'm used to it.
(ubergeekian, Wed 11 Sep 2013, 20:37, closed)


(I helped save b3ta! Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 0:50, closed)
lol
why don't you go all the way and change your name to Robert Killjoy-Silk
(I helped save b3ta! The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 0:51, closed)


(I helped save b3ta! Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 1:03, closed)
oh look, it's another formulaic attempt to troll my posts with a link
yawn
(I helped save b3ta! The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 1:57, closed)


(I helped save b3ta! Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 10:12, closed)
Us dullards should stick together.

(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 10:24, closed)


(I helped save b3ta! The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 23:27, closed)
Really?
Why the hell would I make up something like this? If I was going to, I would make it less techie and more interesting. It was nearly 25 years ago, but it definitely happened.
(Tsukemono, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 11:38, closed)
Ignore him, he's an autistic troll.

(I helped save b3ta! BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 12:37, closed)
Offhand?
I can think of about twenty seven reasons why you'd make it up. My "you didn't understand" offer is open as well.
(ubergeekian, Wed 11 Sep 2013, 20:39, closed)

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