02-01-2012, 06:24 PM
This takes me back to the time when I was around 15-16 years old,
my next door neighbour who was a similar age to me, found an electric drill at our local tip when I lived in Lichfield, (In them days, you could help yourself to items without anyone bothering you).
So he took said drill home to see if it worked & set about fitting a plug, I popped into the house, and when I came back out, he was staggering about the back yard, teeth clenched, tightly holding onto the drill, so I quickly shot into his shed, and unplugged the extension lead it was plugged into.
When I re-emerged from the shed, he was throwing the drill up against the wall, uttering expletives which cannot be repeated on here, I found out in the end that the drill had a strange wire colour coding, one wire was white, one was black, and i cannot remember what colour the third wire was,
needless to say, he had managed to connect the metal body of the drill to LIVE.
I think the drill went straight back to the tip.
my next door neighbour who was a similar age to me, found an electric drill at our local tip when I lived in Lichfield, (In them days, you could help yourself to items without anyone bothering you).
So he took said drill home to see if it worked & set about fitting a plug, I popped into the house, and when I came back out, he was staggering about the back yard, teeth clenched, tightly holding onto the drill, so I quickly shot into his shed, and unplugged the extension lead it was plugged into.
When I re-emerged from the shed, he was throwing the drill up against the wall, uttering expletives which cannot be repeated on here, I found out in the end that the drill had a strange wire colour coding, one wire was white, one was black, and i cannot remember what colour the third wire was,
needless to say, he had managed to connect the metal body of the drill to LIVE.
I think the drill went straight back to the tip.
