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I had just bought a house (April '97), had a pregnant wife & was *** deep in converting the Reno racer known as Stilleto into a TF-51 dual control Mustang.

The house was getting some electrical upgrades & the wife enlisted the help of some *electrical genius* from her workplace (Lockheed).

This genius fitted some GFI outlets in the kitchen (while I was at work one day)& to test they worked the ******* ***** jammed one of MY screwdrivers into an outlet. I made it clear that if I ever saw him at the house again, or even on the street, I was going to jam the screwdriver into one of his outlets like a Foley without lube.

I was having a sort through of some old boxes today & found the damn thing, now I'm pissed off all over again...



 
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Years later I tracked down a set of these CK screwdrivers online & grabbed em right away. Difference between the originals & the newer ones is that the original ones say "West Germany", newer ones just say Germany.
It's cast right into the plastic handles. On the newer ones you can see they just machined away the "West' in the molds & continued to use them :)
 
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Some people. Never ceases to amaze me how inconsiderate some folks can be. :headshake
 
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ZRX61 said:
The house was getting some electrical upgrades & the wife enlisted the help of some *electrical genius* from her workplace (Lockheed).

This genius fitted some GFI outlets in the kitchen (while I was at work one day)& to test they worked the ******* ***** jammed one of MY screwdrivers into an outlet.
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Holy ****, no GFI protected outlet did that damage. GFI's protect at the mA level, the damage to that screwdriver looks like 10A+ easily.

That genius must have "tested" it between active and neutral instead of active and ground. Either that or the genius installed it incorrectly, or you've got a faulty GFI.
 
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Alright, I'll say it.


bang his wife

Seriously. What the hell. Who does that

"Check out the quality of my work!" -zzzzapppp-
 
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ZRX61 said:
... I made it clear that if I ever saw him at the house again, or even on the street, I was going to jam the screwdriver into one of his outlets like a Foley without lube...
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I don't think I would've given him the second chance. Once the thing was planted straight up his *AHEM* ...well, right next to his head... he'd be left with the choice of telling the extracting physician the truth - that he is entirely incompetent and someone took exception to it - or describing the tools new location as an "accident".
 
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ZRX61 said:
I should point out that the tip of the screwdriver is (was) only 1/8in wide.
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Yeah I realize that, it's a very common size for electrical "terminal strip" work. Still the energy required to do that damage is literally hundreds of times greater than what a correctly functioning GFI would provide (to ground). The guy was fibbin' about how he damaged it.
 
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ZRX61 said:
Difference between the originals & the newer ones is that the original ones say "West Germany", newer ones just say Germany.
It's cast right into the plastic handles. On the newer ones you can see they just machined away the "West' in the molds & continued to use them :)
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I'll bet that was job #1 Monday morning after that awesome weekend.

"Pull all the molds! We're changing them NOW!"

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The kind of engineer who works on stuff like the U2, F117, F35 etc....:wtf:
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You still sure you want that "airplane guy" working on your stuff? LOL!:spit:

"I'd rather have an "airplane guy" work on my keyboard than have a "keyboard guy" work on my airplane."
 
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Those are quite good drivers! You find them in a lot of hardware shops this side of the pond!

They havn't changed the style in years!

There is a cheaper version with softer handles, but the decent ones are not costly!

Neither will stop a fool destroying one though...!
 
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Gotta go along with that one.

The GFI should never have done that.
I'd seriously re-test that GFI.



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Holy ****, no GFI protected outlet did that damage. GFI's protect at the mA level, the damage to that screwdriver looks like 10A+ easily.

That genius must have "tested" it between active and neutral instead of active and ground. Either that or the genius installed it incorrectly, or you've got a faulty GFI.
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ZRX61 said:
The kind of engineer who works on stuff like the U2, F117, F35 etc....:wtf:
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When I worked as an engineer for the Boeing Co., we were never permitted to handle tools. Only part of that had to do with union work rules. The real concern was that an engineer would f***** something up.
 
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uart said:
Holy ****, no GFI protected outlet did that damage. GFI's protect at the mA level, the damage to that screwdriver looks like 10A+ easily.

That genius must have "tested" it between active and neutral instead of active and ground. Either that or the genius installed it incorrectly, or you've got a faulty GFI.
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Shoddy electrical work. I wonder how OP sleeps soundly at night.
 
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When I worked as an engineer for the Boeing Co., we were never permitted to handle tools.
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I'll agree with that.

Once I was working in one of the Renton Boeing buildings. I'd been asked to repair a large 35mm IBM Card printer. Before I'd arrived one of the Boeing Engineers said he could fix the printer. He deftly rewired the developer assembly and applied 120 VAC to the 5 VDC logic; this destroyed every circuit board in the machine. $15,000 later I finally left Boeing with a working printer. Ah... the good ol' days, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
 
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