This is hilarious...

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove


I don't recall mentioning car batteries, but go ahead if you must. Just remeber that if you are electrocuted during this procedure that the statistics on out-of -hospital resuscitations are very dismal. Even if you have someone experienced in CPR present at the scene of your demise, the chance of successful resuscitation is only 10% or less. Even within a hospital your chances would be much less than 50%. Your best chance is if you are within the CCU, ICU or surgery, so if you're going to attempt to defibrillate your car I would suggest driving over to the local hospital and driving it upstairs to the Intnesive Care Unit. This won't improve the car's chances, but it will improve yours.

You forgot to tell him to make sure the battery was dry.

ACK!

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by David Floyd
Allen key? Was ist das?

You've gotta be kidding.

My father was a tool salesman for Snap-On for 25 years or so, so I grew up doing this sort of ****...

We even had discussions about why Americans don't use Robertson screws (NIH syndrome)...

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove


I don't recall mentioning car batteries, but go ahead if you must. Just remeber that if you are electrocuted during this procedure that the statistics on out-of -hospital resuscitations are very dismal. Even if you have someone experienced in CPR present at the scene of your demise, the chance of successful resuscitation is only 10% or less. Even within a hospital your chances would be much less than 50%. Your best chance is if you are within the CCU, ICU or surgery, so if you're going to attempt to defibrillate your car I would suggest driving over to the local hospital and driving it upstairs to the Intnesive Care Unit. This won't improve the car's chances, but it will improve yours.

How much voltage does a defib put out?

I had a friend who short-circuited a 900-volt power source for an ion gun with his arm, and he was okay (except for the blisters...)

[KrazyHorse]

And needless to say I've taken household current at least 3-4 times.

[David Floyd]

You've gotta be kidding.

My father was a tool salesman for Snap-On for 25 years or so, so I grew up doing this sort of ****...

We even had discussions about why Americans don't use Robertson screws (NIH syndrome)...

I'm not kidding and I don't know what a Robertson screw is either

[TCO]

Originally posted by Frogger
And needless to say I've taken household current at least 3-4 times.

I've been bit before also. But house current is nothing to mess with. 120/60 can kill you.

[Asher]

Do you know how to operate a hammer?

[KrazyHorse]

Maybe if it's across your chest, but across your arm or hand all it does is make you jump...

[David Floyd]

Sure, I can swing a hammer around. I doubt I'd be too accurate in terms of hitting a nail, though.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by David Floyd


I'm not kidding and I don't know what a Robertson screw is either

The best screw ever invented. More torque than any other on the market.

http://www.tackaberrytimes.com/articles/robertson_screw/robertson_screw.htm

Came out with it a couple years before the Phillips screw, which is inferior...

[Lefty Scaevola]

I never missed an oportunity to psyche out wargames. One of best involve a table and scewdrivers. I bought a large homenade gaming table for the humongous map game War In Europe. We bring it over on a trucl and then we are going to diassemble it, clean it up, take it into the gaming room, and put it back together. Having look it over, I had an idea what we were in for, tanking out and 60 4" long screws. I time it well and just when my two buddies are starting to wilt in the heat in my back driveway, I see my suprise go pass the driveway to park in front. Then I hear him coming around the corner into the driveway. I tell the other gamers. "You know Barrett (Lefty) always has good reserves in his pocket at the critical moments, and what we need now is MORE POWER." Then here comes one of my contractors, a huge carpenter, dripping about 30 lbs of power tools, marching up the the driveway. Got 'em again.
And needless to say, I took the oportunity to improve the table, we put back together with bolts instead of screws.

[TCO]

There isn't a good diagram of the screw on that site.

[orange]

[Asher]

Robertson screws are simply square-heads...painfully simple.

[KrazyHorse]

It's just a square-recess, tapered a bit and pointed at the end (think of the bit as the Washington monument).

It holds on much better than even a Phillips head and, because of a new manufacturing process invented by Robertson it cost less to produce than either the Phillips or the slotted head screws. Very standard use here, but apparently not as widespread everywhere else.