Comments on: Metals In Our Body

By: Jestine Yong

Jestine Yong — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:31:15 +0000

In reply to Robert.

HI Robert,

Thanks for sharing your true life experience.

Jestine

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By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 07:01:56 +0000

Yes metal on our body can be dangerous, and also long hair. I had long hair when I was a kid. I worked at a machine shop after school. At work I would keep my hair in a pony-tail.
One day I was running a very powerful low speed - high torque drill press. Somehow I moved the wrong way and the drill caught the end of my pony-tail. By the time I hit the switch to turn off the machine, my head was against the drill chuck. One more second and it would've broke my neck. I was scared to death!
After school the next day I had my hair cut and never wore it long again...
People need to remember Murphy's Law: Anything that can happen, will happen. And machines and electricity are not prejudiced - they don't care what color you are or where you were born!

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By: Humberto N. Rdguez.

Humberto N. Rdguez. — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:50:14 +0000

I'm not used to wear rings, bracelets, etc because it's very dangerous. I have a friend that produced a short-circuit between his ring and HV of a TV set. Another one loose half a finger when he was going down from a truck. I mean it's very dangerous, specially in electronics work.

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By: Jestine Yong

Jestine Yong — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 02:18:52 +0000

In reply to bill.

Hi Bill,

Thanks for sharing and hope the readers could learn from your experience.

Jestine

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By: bill

bill — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:59:30 +0000

well ,some years a go I was testing out a 300 amp spot welder that i had got of ebay on my car, obviously i disconnected the battery and alternator to be safe than sorry, anyway I decided to spot weld a new A panel on my classic mini,it seemed to b working ok, then suddenly there was a short through my wedding ring to earth from the body of the spot welder,where a large current heated up very quickly and gave me a very nasty ring burn that took months to heal completely,also i had to have the ring cut off as it made my finger swell considerately, since then i do not wear any body jewellery ever whe woring with DC OR AC,, THE SHORT EARTH WAS IN THE WINDINGS OF THE SPOT WELDER ,,BILL

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By: Jestine Yong

Jestine Yong — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:12:53 +0000

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the good comment.

Jestine

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By: Mike Kaonga

Mike Kaonga — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:54:02 +0000

Hi,
It is one of the most dangerous and fatal accident. My professional is Power Electrical and you are not allowed to operate with metal at-touched to your body unless there are properly insulated other wise you will be subjected extreme high voltages (ie 220v,380v and 415v). such voltages are not friendly at all, safety should be considered first. Yes electronics generates higher voltages which some static voltage but all the same there is no room for errors. In what ever the form of power is ,it is too deadly. friends safety first work later issue you are clean on your body NO METAL is hanging take care.

Mike

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By: admin

admin — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:04:27 +0000

HI Baiju,

Thanks for sharing.

Jestine

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By: baiju

baiju — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:44:05 +0000

yes ,metals in our body decreases resistance of body and thus allow more current to flow and surge the power thus increases the chance of being electricuted.

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By: beh

beh — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:31:38 +0000

IMPORYANT POINTS

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