Setting up a VAXstation

[...] I once deliberately bridged hot to ground with a screwdriver on a live circuit - we were having trouble figuring out which breaker it was on. It did make "a helluva flashbang", and it took some time - half a minute? multiple minutes? - before I could see again; I was silly enough to look right at it as I did it. It also ate a nice little cavity about halfway through the screwdriver shaft. The shaft was perhaps 5mm thick, and the cavity looked, roughly, as though someone had drilled a 5mm hole whose centreline passed through the surface of the shaft. Oh, and the room smelled of vapourized copper and steel for a few minutes. :) I don't recommend this, except as (as Wouter describes it) a belt-and-suspenders technique for making *sure* the line is cold. In retrospect, it was a stupid way to do what I wanted done, and quite probably reduced the life expectancy of that breaker substantially. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B