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"I know a railwayman of 40-odd years' service," says Juan Quar, "and he tells me a new gruesome yarn each time we meet. Last week's was of checking the time on the wristwatch of a severed arm he'd just collected after a track fatality."

Tell us the horrible stories you tease the new hires with, or that you've been told.
NB By definition, these are probably all made up. Roll with it

(, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:33)
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I'd have assumed the LV side of a transformer making a conversion of that magnitude would be fairly low resistance. Could be they were welding the nominally positive line with the return path through the coil to ground for some reason
(, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 0:36, 2 replies)
don't bother trying to reason with such blatant trolls, save yourself some time and report them to the law

(, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 0:56, closed)
Even then
the most the primary would see would be a fairly small bit of the welding voltage, which ain't high.
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