> >  Cutting through the wiring to the third vapourised my lovely new and
> > fairly pricey Lindstrom snippers, the bang and flash right in my face
> > scaring the crap out of me.
>
> Having decided that the mixer was indeed broken, I decided to salvage
> what I could (ie the power cord.)  So I unplugged it, grabbed the nice
> chefs knife from the knife block, and slice through the cord near the
> mixer body.   Too bad the cord I had unplugged was to the food
> processor.  Left an impressive notch in the knife blade, made a nice
> flash, didn't blow the beaker...

A jeweller friend of my parents decided to get a new lathe for his workshop,
but being scared of electricity asked dad to wire it into the mains for him.
Dad duly turns up, and it seems the unit id to be some way from the power
point. OK, the way to work out how much lead to use, is to put the plug on
it, plug it in, and run the wire around the wall, then cut it to length, and
wire it into the unit. Bang - flash - much to the consternation of friend
and amusement of my father. It seems that the act of plugging into the wall
produced an automatic reflex to turn the switch on ...

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