24-07-2011, 04:57 PM
Years ago I was working on a Telefunken tape recorder. I had the thing vertical on the bench with the base cover removed in order to check voltages. A faint humming began but before I could move there was a bang like a rifle shot and a small electrolytic hit me in the chest with tremendous force, knocking me backward. If I'd been lower I could easily have lost an eye. As it was, I had a fine multicoloured example of a painful and tender bruise that changed hue over a fortnight or so before fading. A new electrolytic worked perfectly. As I recall, it wasn't even at high voltage. Luckily, it is the one occurrence I've experienced so far! I would not have believed it had it not happened to me.
-Tony
-Tony
