Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: OMK on May 06, 2008, 05:22:49 am
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I don't normally fear or flinch from anything. The only exception being creepy-crawlies. Now, at the risk of sounding like some sort of poncy wimp, I only have to see a spider before I start running in the opposte direction.
I just went to the kitchen for an early-morning snack, and there, about three inches above the kitchen doorhandle was the biggest, spookiest spider you ever did see. The sucker must have had a leg span at least all of one inch. The only way into the kitchen is via that doorhandle - so I gingerly inched my hand forward, and as I did the damn spider actually SPRANG forward. I shrieked, the spider shrieked, then landed on the floor with a 'whump!'.
Mercy sakes! I mean, the poor thing was probably more scared of me than I was of it. But that was the first ever time I'd seen one LEAP!
Wearing just my birthday suit, I bolted in the opposite direction in case it started crawling up me leg or something. I nearly had a bleedin' heart attack - not to mention losing the desire for a snack.
Just think though... if it can leap the way it does, then what would happen if the damn thing decided to go for me throat?!
I wouldn't rate my chances of survival if I had to live in Australia.
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PMK
It is something to get used to thats for sure. At every turn you find a creepy crawly and most of them have the potential to cause serious problems to your health. There is this one spider, The White Tail Spider, that if bitten the area around the bite starts to swell and rot. There is also an ant in Tasmania that jumps up at you and if it bites you it has a nasty reaction and I have heard it has caused death through anaphylaxis. Then you have The Red Back, The Funnel Web and various snakes. But the worst of them all is the Huntsman spider although not poisonous to humans they can grow to the size of a dinner plate and they always seem to find their way into your house, now that is scary.
Regards David
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Sorry couldn't help myself. ::){-)
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WOW PMK a leg span of a whole inch!!
A good job he didnt get nasty and attack you or carry you off to his lair.
He must have been at least a million times smaller than you!!
Erm, it does make you sound like "some sort of poncy wimp", sorry can hardly type for laughing, shouldnt this be in Humour, its cracking Me up!! O0
Bob
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Well PMK if thats what it takes to keep you out of the fridge i think swimbo will have to get some for me {-) {-) {-) :o
daz
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Thank you PMK O0,
I now have sides that are splitting and a jaw that aches O0 but that spider is big! (ish) I live with two arachnophobic's. and my younger brother is one as well !
Daughter was not always scared until the school let her home with the schools tarantella! all was fine until one day she said it had stopped moving? on looking it was light and stiff, 1 dead spiddy :'( we all went out to for the day to console the distraught child. {-)
returned home and wrote the school the letter to say it had died while in our care (not an easy task that one)
Several weeks later my brother and I were in my loft removing the chimney breast brick work, at smoko we sat with legs through the loft hatch drinking coffee and having a puff, my bro reached for his mug and there stood in the defence pose was the biggest blackest hairest tarantella you have ever seen!
Bro spilt coffee missed step ladder and was last seen going under bed, in doing this he had broken the one lead light we were using so I was now in darkness with the creature from hell.
Hey man I am not scared but the size of that thing!
Apparently tranchela's shed their skin when they grow (didn't know that then) wanted to catch the thing for the school but had no luck (not that I tried very often ;) ) Size well at the time it's rear end was around 40mm 1, 1/2 and it was higher than the mug when it was stood in defence mode. Only ever found a dead blackbird >:(
R, still laughing thanks,
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Parents are usually responsible for their offspring's dread of creepy crawlies. I have seen them shriek and run from some harmless creature, taking their children with them and embedding them with a lifelong fear of the things. I have, at every opportunity, tried to teach my grandchildren to respect the creatures and understand them by demonstrating how harmless they actually are, often by handling them and coaxing the little uns to to have a go with me. It works, and by repeated gentle persuasion they have responded fairly positively and now are inquisitive rather than afraid, but most importantly, they do not let initial panic take hold and run away screaming.
Having said all that, things which are harmful like wasps and mosquitoes get the the death sentance if they come into the house but not in a fit of panic.
I learned to overcome a natural fear of a lot of bugs by realising how harmless they really were and we have some really huge spiders running around here at certain times of the year... all totally harmless. One night, I tuned on the bedside lamp and invited swmbo to turn over and look at a huge black spider walking up my chest. We watched as it traversed my body, walked onto my left shoulder then onto the pillow and off the bed onto the floor... no panic , no sweat... totally harmless! Just remember, they are more scared of you than you are of them, you are the one who can inflict damage but they can't. Quite often, if we have flies and the like buzzing around the house I will address the resident room spider by complaining to him that if he doesn't shape up and start doing his job, he will be thrown out into the garden... much to the ammusement of the children.
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I was once told that the most venomous spider in the world lives right here in the UK. Its poison is so powerfull that the tiniest drop could kill any living thing. However, it is so tiny and its jaws are so small that it is incapable of biting almost anything bigger than itself.
Does anyone know if this is true?
Rick
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My memorable spider experience was at the top of a very rural pole. I had clambered up, got the safety belt well secured so I was firmly fixed in place, and proceeded to take the lid off the terminal box. I was presented with this spotted THING that was all hairy legs and mandibles about a foot and a bit in front of my face. After gathering enough composure I bravely flicked it out with my trusty screwdriver. Loking at the size of the thing, it must have got in via the wire entry hole, and then eaten everything that found its way in as there was no way it was going out the same hole.
I am sure the thing was sneering at me.
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I am sure the thing was sneering at me.
Yes, it's the way they look at you that does it for me....
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But that was the first ever time I'd seen one LEAP!
Must have been the sight of PMK in his birthday suit. :embarrassed:
At least it missed your dangly bits PMK {-) {-)
FC
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-21253,00.html
There is the British house spider, and these can be failry big. Up to 60mm with legs is normal.
Then there is the Aggressive House Spider. That will attack and try to bite people.
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I myself am not worried by the spiders, but you could be right in what you say Sheerline, the wife and daughter have been in each others company all the daughters life where I excaped to sea {-)
My younger brother says that the tarantella in the loft had a baseball bat in both front arms/legs and had that thug look in his eyes :D
I am sure the thing was sneering at me.
Yes, it's the way they look at you that does it for me....
The wife has a spider removal tool its the DYSON {-)
R,
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oooo PMK ya havent been smoking the funny stuff and drinking broon ale have ya - cos that's nowt - I had one in me shed equipt with grenade, AK47 and it measured 3 inches across {-) and I call it Wor Lass {-)
{-) Im trying to train it to eat me next door neighbour's noisy kiddiewids ::) ::)
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One of my girlfriends used to have a dread of spiders. She'd squeal and leap up onto a chair at the smallest arachnid. Needless to say yours truly got quite adept at the old beer-mat and glass trick (you know, cover the spider with the upturned glass; slide the mat under it and carry the whole lot over to the window etc).
She was always unreasonably grateful afterwards ;) but we broke up when she found the family of spiders which I kept hidden in a matchbox in my jacket................
FLJ (Cad, rotter, bounder and all-round swine!)
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Terry: Dangly bits or not, I didn't hang around to find out.
It's like Malcolm and Colin says - it's the way they look at you. The thing is though, I didn't realise that they could leap. It happened so fast that my instant reaction was to get the hell outta there. But think about this. What is the height of the average door handle? 40 inches or so? That means it had fallen hundreds of times it's own height - yet when it landed on the floor it scuttled away without even as much as a scratch. Now in my book that makes that diddly spider MUCH tougher than any human.
It's not that which bothers me, though. The fact that they can bite and are potentially poisonous - that doesn't bother me neither. It's the fact that they LOOK at you all menacing-like. And their scuttling motions - that too spooks me. Even worse is now knowing that the little sods can LEAP at you.
By the way, hands up anyone who sleeps with their mouth open. Have you ever suddenly woken with that sickly feeling that you've just swallowed a spider?
Knowing my luck, for my sins, I'll probably come back in the next life as an entomologist or some such.
Hey, Cat', your post didn't 'arf make I laff!
Sheerline, I'm having a bit of trouble with sending PMs from here, but one should be heading your way and, with any luck, should be sitting in your in box in the next couple minutes.
FLJ - now we ARE intrgued. What was her definition of unreasonable gratefulness, pray?!
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Hi, Bloob's - good point!
Come to think of it, did you see that TV documentary where a bunch of scientist tested cannabis on a spider? More to the point, did you see the state of its web after the effects had kicked in? Man, that web was anything but a web, but you should have seen that sucker go! The damn thing was whizzing around and around for hours and hours - obviously having a whale of a time.
And that, my good friend, was the only time I'd seen a spider looking happy and not looking at all menacing.
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In actual fact, you've just given me a great idea.............
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PMK the younger (youngest out of seven) is 40 this year O0 and still says that it has baseball bats and just will not enter loft spaces without the full monty of hallogen lamps and assistant!
The daughter is now 29 and was eight at the time.
Sent the brother a toy spider for one Christmas, mum said he leapt up so quick he cleared the back of the sofa and would not enter the room untill the "####### ##### ### thing" was killed! took several weeks before he spoke to me or the misses ::)
I took a picture of a spider in macro mode and that worried ME when I say it on the computer screen.
R,
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PMK I never saw the documentary where they gave the spider the happy backie, but, did you not hear about Newcastle University feeding the spider they had on Broon Ale {-) it is now running around with a black and white striped tee shirt on singing I LOVE KEVIN KEEGAN and where's me curry.
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john e
bluebird
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newcastle united, hell id wather watch the spiders!
mind you Stoke City will be playing NUFC soon and will whip em!
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searching the WEB - see if I could find pic of a black and white spider for PMK and found this.....new spider catcher :) :) :)
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thats sweet ! however the DY 50 N Spider seeking sucker seems like mote fun.
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PMK
i no tough guy but even i back down from a spider >>:-( my wife just laugh's at
me saying, my big truck driver O0
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cant say spiders bother me that much but one night i woke up and there was one hanging about an inch away from my face and i swear it was the size of a small car. i nearly **** myself. needless to say it was dispatched to spider heaven.
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Rick,
You are almost right mate, but the spiders live through out the world,
they are called over here daddy long legs, can be quite large but very thin
they are the most poisonous animal any where in the world, fortunately as
you say they cannot bite you, thank heavens.............
Roy
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Dear All,
... and then then there is the Camel Spider that lives in the Middle East. It can grow to a leg span of about a foot, very long legs, stands tall, and can not only run extremely fast, but, when cornered WILL jump up and bite anything - I should have mentioned it is also rather poisonous! - to anything! How do I know about this... well, a friend of mine is in the oil Industry and was based out in Oman for a while, and one day while going walkabout he saw this Arab armed with a shovel chasing after something at great speed and with much intent and determination... he asked what was going on, and that's how I know!!! Sorry to say, that if a creepy crawlie surprises me and infringes on my personal domain and territory in the process, it's dead... no two ways about it... very partic. the high speed varieties. However, and if prepared, I will do my best to put it back in it's domain... viz., outside!
A friend once kept all sorts of snakes and, after being pressured to going to see the damn things, insisted on taking one out. I gave him fair warning that if he dropped it, that whilst the snake might be fast, that as soon as it touched the ground it would be dead!!! - in a billionth of a second! - and I would take no responsibility whatsoever for my actions!
Regards, Bernard
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cant say spiders bother me that much but one night i woke up and there was one hanging about an inch away from my face and i swear it was the size of a small car. i nearly **** myself. needless to say it was dispatched to spider heaven.
A Fiat Uno, or a Saxo size? :o ;)
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A Fiat Uno, or a Saxo size? :o ;)
Nah, you dumbo! An Alpha-Romeo 2-seat convertible............
FLJ
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Geez! Now that is one spooky-looking piece of work. Imagine finding THAT mother under the duvet!
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Here is a beauty,
a local resident in SW China. About 2-3" across the legs.
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About 15 years ago whilst working in forestry, we were clearing a section of land from dead growth for re-planting. We came across this rather large tree approx. 4 -5 feet across the base and decided to cut down before it fell down and destroyed everything in its path..
As I was cutting in with a large chain saw had noted that the centre of the trunk was hollow and had to take extra precautions. It took some 90 minutes before this huge tree decided to make its way earth bound. Leaping sideways as the tree fell to earth with a tremendous thump, My offsider and I noticed that the ground was shimmering rather strangely for about 30 - 50 yards around us.
My mate asked "what in the hell is that", my response to him " look down to your boots". Apparently the hollow tree was the nesting place of Huntsmen Spiders (as Bigfella above noted). It was a carpet of spiders - never seen so many - more than in Indiana Jones Movie, their were literally thousands of them all around.
CURED MY FEAR OF SPIDERS ONCE AND FOR ALL.... :angel:
Martin doon under
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cant say spiders bother me that much but one night i woke up and there was one hanging about an inch away from my face and i swear it was the size of a small car. i nearly **** myself. needless to say it was dispatched to spider heaven.
Better a lttle itsy bitsy spider hanging there than a 2" cockroach drinking out of your nose! (Unless it is one of them jumping redbacks that the aussies keep as pets).
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Just remember, they are more scared of you than you are of them
A few years ago I was on my way from work and got got caught in a traffic jam, as I was parked a bit away from the sourse I looked down the stationary line of traffic only to see a flash of white, into gear we go and down the right hand lane only ony to come accross this Moderated copper trying to get a swan off the road how? He was chasing it with his Volvo with the blue lights on. The poor bird was terrified, I stopped the silly Moderated in his car and managed to grab hold of the bird and get it into my Land Rover. Some people just have no idea do they.
Andy.
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What did it taste like Andy and how many did it feed ? :-\
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How many did it feed? Quite a few....
Some years ago I was doing a class for electrical students, time was nearly up to morning coffee break (with sarnies-of course) and minds were starting to think of things other than the delights of the subject I was teaching.
One of the lads (from a very rural area) suddenly asked if I could cook a proper meal, you know meat and stuff.
I said that I could and went on getting my gear tidied away for the break.
He looked rather palid at this time...
"How long would you cook a swan for Sir?"
A what?
A swan, you know those big white things that fly.
How the hell would I know that? Apart from the fact that my mind said something about it being illegal to kill them. Better than that, why do you want to know?
The story came out, they had been called out to an overhead line fault and found that the cause of the fault was a bird strike (said swan). It was obviously dead with a broken neck and some burn marks from it's encounter with the high voltage conductors.
The crew made up their minds that it shouldn't have died in vain and promptly wrapped it up to carry home.
One of the gang took it home and prepared it and then found that the equation of large swan (plucked and cleaned by then) to one oven (domestic size) does not compute.
"He had to remove it's legs and neck to get it into the oven". "Even then he had to use a lot of force to get it into the oven, it was a big b****r was that bird".
One of the students (who will always ask the questions that you really don't want to know the answer to) then asked how this was done.
Simple, you take a hacksaw and......
One lad asked if he'd used a new blade in the saw. "Nah, he just used the one that was in the frame". Just to think of what that blade had been used for previously...
A horrible silence greeted this and a few faces looked a bit green.... Oh boy, just what you need to think of over your morning brew and sarnie.
To end this discussion I asked him if the final step had been to consume said swan, and just why did he want to know if I could cook meat.
"Well really Sir, I just wondered if you knew the cooking time for swan, the guy had done it for many hours and it appeared, to me, that it was not fully cooked when he brought the cold sliced meat into the depot to share out among the crew"." For future reference sort of thing you know, just in case he had got the cooking time screwed up." (The "cook" was also in deep trouble at home with his missus because he had blocked the drain from the sink with the amount of fat this thing had produced during the cooking).
And did you eat it? If you did what was it like?
"Tried a bit" said the lad," tasted bloody terrible. Never again."
The class was by now looking at him as though he had just admitted being a cannibal with more than a few murmurings of what practices these people from the far flung areas get up to.
The lad looked a bit upset when I reminded him that, although my mind was like a rubbish tip and that I could remember odd bits and pieces about a lot of things, this was an engineering department and not a domestic science lesson. Better than that, I was very unlikely to be the next T.V. cooking guru with the speciality of the menu being swan and how to cook it.
That was the first, and likely the only time in my memory, that there was not a stampede to get to the canteen for the morning break.
And as for the starter of this thread, Mr PMK, methinks that you are trying to pull some wool (high quality maybe) over peoples eyes. Everyone knows that you don't get large creepy crawlies in Somerset. The mystics down around Glastonbury cast them all out many years ago! Or could it have been the after effects (withdrawal symptoms) from a generous helping of the old white lightning that is so popular around the area.
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And as for the starter of this thread, Mr PMK, methinks that you are trying to pull some wool (high quality maybe) over peoples eyes. Everyone knows that you don't get large creepy crawlies in Somerset. The mystics down around Glastonbury cast them all out many years ago!
Not cast out, cast in. Cast in to the pot, a very tasty too. Why? some may ask. Well; I likes a leg, the missus likes a leg, the dappers they all likes a leg...
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Or could it have been the after effects (withdrawal symptoms) from a generous helping of the old white lightning that is so popular around the area.
The spider in the original post wasn't really that big. It would not have needed to drink much white lightning to take PMK on.
A colleague of mine many years past worked as a lineman in a rural area, and come the season of the year, there would be an increase in the number of reports of phones not working. He took good care to carry a short length of cable with pellet damage in his van. Having sorted the problem, he would proudly show the "trophy". The farmer would then usually say "Ah. Tha'sd better 'ave a brace o' these." A free duck dinner was always welcome, and a guilty conscience can always be exploited.
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Just watched Arachnophobia - they come in all sizes and CAN jump! (they can even do the side step!)
I'm just about to tape up all orifices, fumigate the hermetically sealed dry suit and go to bed, but not before usesing some of that stuff John Goreman used in and around the bed room.
Is it true we eat / swallow on average 6 spiders a year - or am I just lucky?
Stay Safe
Gary
:D :o ::)
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Or could it have been the after effects (withdrawal symptoms) from a generous helping of the old white lightning that is so popular around the area.
The spider in the original post wasn't really that big. It would not have needed to drink much white lightning to take PMK on.
A colleague of mine many years past worked as a lineman in a rural area, and come the season of the year, there would be an increase in the number of reports of phones not working. He took good care to carry a short length of cable with pellet damage in his van. Having sorted the problem, he would proudly show the "trophy". The farmer would then usually say "Ah. Tha'sd better 'ave a brace o' these." A free duck dinner was always welcome, and a guilty conscience can always be exploited.
reminds me of a line crew i were having a coffee break with. they went to a power outage and along the wires there was a row of birds legs. apparently one touched the live bit and passed the shock along to all his mates and it literally blew their legs off.
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along the wires there was a row of birds legs. apparently one touched the live bit and passed the shock along to all his mates and it literally blew their legs off.
This thread is taking some strange turns methinks.
If this tale is to be believed, someone had better think of a very sound technical explanation!
In practice, linesmen can operate at up to 400kV (in the UK) working "barehand" i.e. they are raised to the line voltage. Their only protective equipment while doing this are overalls with metalised thread woven into the fabric. The overalls have hoods, peaks on the front and a face cover. They are fitted with a flexible cable which is attached to the line so that the overalls (and thus the linesman) is at full line voltage. These overalls are worn to protect the operator from the effects of a power discharge known as corona - which appears as a violet/purple glow at any high spot on the conductor - in this case the high spot would be the linesman!
Oh yes, the other factors involved, a hell of a lot of safety procedures before, during and after such work!
The effects of electrostatic fields around conductors, especially those running at high voltages, is the principal reason that birds prefer not to sit on live lines but would frequently be seen on the over running eath wires.
Unless of course someone knows otherwise.......
Footnote: the guy who first did the trials on the practical application of this technique (in a power lab) was awarded the B.E.M. for his services to the industry.
Regards to all.
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this happened in new zealand but i guess the system is similar. birds taking out power supplies is quite common here. i cant vouch for the truth but the linesman seemed serious about it.
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This thing with the birds is a bit odd, unless the power cable is grounded or broken the power will flow. The only conceivable way birds could ground a high voltage line would be to cluster around the insulator assemblies and cause an arc but even then, the insuators are designed in such a way that that woudn't be possible. Also, the mass of a bird is so small that even if they could, they would be killed by corona discharge before they able to settle. If we are talking about 32000 volt pylons you would need hundreds of birds all daft enough to try to cluster around an insulator on a wet day! If it were possible, there would be piles of birds found at the bottom of pylons and it would be fairly common knowledge that this phenomena does actually occur. Is this a pylon workers tall story of the type told to apprentices or do we have a high voltage line worker on here who can say differently?
HMMMM... seem to have drifted off spiders a bit here!
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The row of birds feet does seem highly unlikely, but if an overhead wire fixing was faulty, and the wire was displaced from where it should have been, and the clearance was reduced, then bets are back on, even if at long odds.
I did get a sillly job - a report of "the phone is warbling to itself occasionally". After much looking at I took one of the sockets apart. On the back of the printed card was a strange looking blob. Close inspection revealed a lot of sad little faces looking back. These turned out to be ants.
It seems that ants habitually follow pheromone trails, and lay them as they go. Ant #1 was out taking the air, and found two bits of circuit board at line voltage (50V) about two ants legs length apart.
Left right left right left right PHUT.
Ant #2 followed the trail, with the same result, then a great many of their mates. Eventually, there was enough matter there to make a circuit for the sounder, which warbled until the matter had dried due to the cooking action of the current passing through one of mother natures resistors. The moisture was renewed from atmosphere by the household action of drying HUNDREDS of nappies in the kitchen, and warbling recommenced.
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Malcolm, it is obvious why the ants were in there you know, the manucafturers of electronic equipment put an entrance hole in the back of the case especially for them ........ its marked 'ANT'!
It's usually adjactent to the other hole marked 'earth'. ;)
Sorry, but couldn't resist that one!
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Malcomfrary: Great bit of detective work there.
Reminded me of when I was an Inspector of Weights and Measures many, many years ago. I received a phone call from a lady, " I have had 10 cwt. of coal delivered and I am sure it is short weight". Now the lads were never too keen on shovelling out coal to weigh it as it was a dirty job, the coal shed was always situated awkwardly and more often than not the allegations were unfounded. So I enquired of the lady why she thought it was short weight. "Well", she said, "I trained my dog to bark each time a sack was delivered and he's only barked 9 times". I politely but firmly advised the lady that I was not requiring my assistants to dig out 10cwt. of coal on such "evidence".
Roger in France.
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There have been been three occasions when I have presonally come across electrical faults caused by animals and we're going back a bit here to the days of steam driven radio and tv.
The first was a large white rabbit owned by my brother when we were kids, he brought it into the house one evening and it crawled under the tv amid complaints from Dad to "get that animal out of the house"!. In the same instant, it munched the mains lead for the tv and a huge flash and bang occurred, rabbit being propelled across the room but apparently unharmed. When we examined him, he had copper plated frazzled whiskers!
The next occasion was a customer who complained that her Dansette record player volume was becoming fainter and the sound tinnier. On opening up the unit, I found a mouse which had been trapped inside had eaten the speaker cone in an effort to get out. The curious thing was that there was nowhere it could have got in and it still remains a mystery to this day how it got there. If it had got in there in the factory as the unit was being assembled then it would presumably have chomped on the cone long before delivery to the customer so I would have expected the fault to have existed at the time of delivery. Very weird!
The third ocasion was when I visited a customers house as she complained that her tv had died and an awful smell was coming from it. Thinking of all the likely 'stock' problems associated with this particular model, I removed the back and there was the problem staring at me.... litterally. A poor little mouse had got into the set and had obviously been crawing around when the set was switched on. His poor little carcass was resting between the chassis and the top cap terminal of the line output valve and as this carries a fairly high voltage and delivers sufficient current, he must have been on there just as the valve had begun to operate. The customer had left the set on, hoping a picture might eventually materialise but with all that power surging through the creature he had carbonised and shorted the whole lot out. There was nothing left of him internally as he had dried out and of course you can imagine how it must have smelled in that house the night before!
Definately going right off the thread here chaps so as a token gesture to maintaing the original spider thread, I must say "I have never had problem with spiders causing electrical problems"! ;D
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OK, a spider problem:
Shortly after moving into my house in France I had automatic, powered gates installed. After a few weeks the drive to one motor failed. On examination a spider had spun a web/cocoon in such a place that the motor failed to switch off. When the gate operated, the motor continued to drive such that a connecting lever fractured!
Not a spider problem: As I said I was an Inspector of Weights and Measures. Testing a weighbridge in an abattoir I found that with a static load imposed the indicator reached the correct point on the dial, stopped then crept slightly forward and then slightly backward, it did this several times. On lifting one of the plates we found a large rat running along one of the levers!
Another abattoir story: When checking a new weighbridge it was necessary to test the hardness of the knife edges making up the lever fulcrums. This was done most scientifically, one climbed down into the pit, under the plates and applied a file to the knife edge! However, on this occasion I was not going down into the pit as the whole floor was one shimmering mass of maggots!
Roger in France.
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Maggots = flies, flies = spiders! Excellent connection with original post Roger ;D.
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>>I must say "I have never had problem with spiders causing electrical problems"!
I have. It happened soon after a home alarm installation. The customer phoned during the early hours complaing that the sounder wouldn't shut off. So I hopped out of bed, drove over there and, sure enough, as soon as the sounder stopped it would immediately re-trigger again. It turned out that a wee spider had crawled inside one of the infra-red motion detectors and built its nest right across the sensor.
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I had the same problem with my shed alarm and my security lighting when spiders got into the motion sensors, neither would turn off after the correct time limit and they turned themselves on when they felt like it. >>:-(