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Date:         Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:20:25 -0700
Reply-To:     Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
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From:         Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Fixing horn-Don't try this at home ;^)
Comments: To: vanagon@vanagon.com
In-Reply-To:  <980715.230324.CDT.JWALKER@UA1VM.UA.EDU>
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At 11:01 PM 7/15/98 CDT, you wrote: >On Wed, 15 Jul 1998 Carl said:

>>on the TV doctor shows. So I carefully hooked up a lamp cord to the two >>terminals, layed it on the bench and plugged it into the wall just long >>enough for it to yelp in pain like a hurt animal. Worked fine thereafter >>until I got rid of that car a couple of years later.

> >hell yeah, it worked fine!!! you'd work fine, too, if you thought someone >was gonna stick a 120V AC wire up your butt again!! :) > >joel > I gotta hand it to you, Carl - I do stuff like that & I try like hell to hide it ...I'd never have the guts you're showing in telling the whole bloody world!!! (come to think of it, just today I decided to tighten a bunch of relay wire screws - 110V controlling 220V at the relay; dummy that I be, I shut down the 110 & found out the hard way that the 220 was still live. I've still got that 'glow' + frizzy hair).

Austin


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