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In Reply to: RE: LoL !! Lack of Safety Culture posted by AbeCollins on April 23, 2016 at 18:39:47
For some of our concerned EU friends,
These days, allowing for national and regional variations, safety regulations are broadly comparable, not least because many are set by international bodies. (I accept that many EU "regulations" are back-door protectionism. Those of us living, however reluctantly, in the EU know that our concerned US friends' government would never behave like that.)
the trick is to not cuddle up to, kiss, suck on, lean on, or touch the vacuum tubes at all while hot.
My concern is not just for the adult with interesting habits - your syntax is unclear but I take it you didn't learn those "donts" the hard way - or even the one who has an otherwise trivial accident with a metal-handled broom. It's more for the child whose curiosity leads it to contact the high voltages tube circuits typically rely on.
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Same problem with my beryllium tweeters. I couldn't use these if I had children (or cats) in my household, otherwise highly poisonous beryllium dust might get created and inhaled.
But then, I wonder how highly poisonous this stuff is. As a 12 year old radio ham I played with liquid mercury, lead based solder, and even managed to burn my fingers on RF on an antenna coupler (no pain, just the smell of burning flesh). I also managed to touch an active secondary of a neon sign transformer. That was exciting, as I work up across the room with no recollection of what had happened.
I am a firm supporter of the Darwin Awards. :)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
It's more for the child whose curiosity leads it to contact the high voltages tube circuits typically rely on.Of course, and it's the responsibility of parents to keep the child safe. Some inmates have sold their vacuum tube gear while others put tube cages on them if children are in the households. We don't need the government to regulate such things. IMHO we are already over regulated by our governments.
Edits: 04/24/16 04/24/16
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