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I never really considered
how much the

*clunk*

of a microwave door

sounds

JUST

like a high-voltage power supply transformer being shunted online

(*bcHNNNQUE!*)

until I was in the 20,000V half of the work laser

up to my elbows

and my coworker decided to nuke a burrito behind me.

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@Momentrabbit Yikes. No burrito is worth that kind of scare!

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@JulieSqveakaroo It was a *fascinating* high-speed silent review of trying to figure out what I had forgotten and was about, obviously, to be killed by. Master switch? Off. HV, filament? Switched off, locked out. Residual tube charge? Bleeder circuit *and* grounded via staff and groundwire. No possible way there's any juice in this th-OH GHOD I MUST BE ON FIRE SOMETHING SMELLS AMAZING IS THAT CHIPOTLE WHY DOESN'T THIS HURT

waitasec.

(Beepbeep!)

... sonnuva-

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