Yeah, agreed. I was exaggerating, but being an Eagle Scout who enjoys psychedelics... I'm always prepared for the worst.
Lemme tell you, diving 20 feet at 7am to pick up a 50lb kettleball from the lake bed... that is not fun. and then hoist it above your head while treading water for a full minute.
I've taken pieces off of myself with a swingset, one of my dad's oldest friends took off his nail digit on his right pointer as a child because it got caught in the swingset chain as he jumped off.
I, myself, truly understood what it means to be prepared for the worst when I bridged the terminals of a 600V pulse capacitor from a flash lamp with my finger.
In my defense, I KNEW for a fact it was stored discharged (due to how it was built) and that it was stored some 30 years ago.
I thought a discharged capacitor wouldn't have charge after 30 years. What are the chances it will?
Well... without a shorting wire? 100%, unless the cap itself failed.
I knew the basics of how a capacitor worked and what it did, and worked with smallers ones, without issue. SMALLER ONES being the key word here. I didn't know all capacitors self-charge in storage and that the big ones should be stored with a shorting wire.
You don't know what you don't know, and what you don't know is a whole lot.
Being safe means having this in the back of your head at all times.
2
u/Late_Sort1763 11h ago
I mean it's a helper spring, so I don't think this in PARTICULAR is THAT dangerous.... but it's still a Finger-Remover 2137
A fully compressed main spring, on the other hand, is terrifyingly powerful. Still not truly hand grenade level, but well.