New learning experience: Iron touching metal =

**Darrell KSR** · 06-11-2018, 12:21 PM

Apparently, not good.

**dan_bgblue** · 06-11-2018, 03:19 PM

????????

**Darrell KSR** · 06-11-2018, 04:06 PM

You know, an electric steam iron. Did you know they're not supposed to touch metal?

**badrose** · 06-11-2018, 04:21 PM

I didn't know. So, what did you learn?

**Darrell KSR** · 06-11-2018, 04:28 PM

It's sort of like putting metal bowls in the microwave, just sort of worse because it's open. Especially if it's a metal sink that it touches. Pretty glorious. Except for the whole blowing fuses thing.

Who knew? I didn't.

**Darrell KSR** · 06-11-2018, 04:32 PM

(And maybe it means there's something wrong with the iron. Probably time for a new one anyway).

**CitizenBBN** · 06-11-2018, 05:06 PM

next you can test urinating on an electric fence.

**blueboss** · 06-11-2018, 07:35 PM

Metal rivets in jeans and such??

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**dan_bgblue** · 06-11-2018, 07:53 PM

Color me happy that you will be replacing the iron. What happened should not have happened.

**UKFlounder** · 06-11-2018, 08:02 PM

Also: remove your shirt before irining it.

**CitizenBBN** · 06-11-2018, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by dan_bgblue

Color me happy that you will be replacing the iron. What happened should not have happened.

My thinking is there is a serious short there, b/c I've never known one to do that. I have been hit by a few but they were all unplugged at the time.

**KeithKSR** · 06-12-2018, 10:27 AM

You shouldn’t have current flowing through the heating element into the ironing plate. Throw the iron away and get a new one.

**catmanjack** · 06-12-2018, 11:33 PM

Need a UTube of this oh please!

Originally Posted by CitizenBBN

next you can test urinating on an electric fence.

**Doc** · 06-14-2018, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by CitizenBBN

next you can test urinating on an electric fence.

Mythbusters disproved this

**KeithKSR** · 06-14-2018, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by Doc

Mythbusters disproved this

How does one disprove it? If you are grounded you are gonna get shocked, if you are ungrounded you won’t. Liquids are conductive.

**CitizenBBN** · 06-14-2018, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by Doc

Mythbusters disproved this

They really did both. The "third rail" was disproven b/c the stream isn't contiguous, so it doesn't carry a charge. But released in a later episode it turns out they actually set up a fence and Adam peed on it and got a shock. But an electric fence is a lot higher than the third rail so the stream was uninterrupted enough at one point for the charge to carry.

You absolutely can be shocked peeing on an electric fence, but only within a certain distance.

**CitizenBBN** · 06-14-2018, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by KeithKSR

How does one disprove it? If you are grounded you are gonna get shocked, if you are ungrounded you won’t. Liquids are conductive.

They did an episode testing peeing on the "third rail". what they found is that a urine stream doesn't stay together, it breaks up into beads and drops, and so at a certain distance the current won't flow b/c you really don't have a "stream" any more.

But then Adam did pee directly on a fence and got a shock, which btw was hysterical. It was done before the B team was formed, but Tory and Kari set it up for them and were there in the background, Kari was red and laughing hard b/c Adam had to "whip it out" and pee on the fence. She was behind him but the crew wasn't. Very funny scene.

They didn't show that one until a revisit episode later, but they did it at the same time they tested the third rail b/c people did write in saying they had been shocked doing it.

So it's both true and not true in that sense. It depends on the distance as to whether you'll get shocked. Get close enough the stream will have integrity and zap.

**Darrell KSR** · 06-14-2018, 04:41 PM

Sheesh. I post about a steam iron, and the next thing I know, people are pissing all over my thread.

**CitizenBBN** · 06-14-2018, 04:42 PM

I'll try to find a video, but nothing came up on youtube. I have it, the fence video. Man it's funny.

**CitizenBBN** · 06-14-2018, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by Darrell KSR

Sheesh. I post about a steam iron, and the next thing I know, people are pissing all over my thread.

Evil twin strikes again.

**KeithKSR** · 06-14-2018, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by CitizenBBN

They did an episode testing peeing on the "third rail". what they found is that a urine stream doesn't stay together, it breaks up into beads and drops, and so at a certain distance the current won't flow b/c you really don't have a "stream" any more.

But then Adam did pee directly on a fence and got a shock, which btw was hysterical. It was done before the B team was formed, but Tory and Kari set it up for them and were there in the background, Kari was red and laughing hard b/c Adam had to "whip it out" and pee on the fence. She was behind him but the crew wasn't. Very funny scene.

They didn't show that one until a revisit episode later, but they did it at the same time they tested the third rail b/c people did write in saying they had been shocked doing it.

So it's both true and not true in that sense. It depends on the distance as to whether you'll get shocked. Get close enough the stream will have integrity and zap.

I live in a rural area, there are a lot of boys who have tested the theory with shocking results.

**CitizenBBN** · 06-14-2018, 06:45 PM

Originally Posted by KeithKSR

I live in a rural area, there are a lot of boys who have tested the theory with shocking results.

Yep. it was tested in my neck of the woods long before the Mythbusters. Myth confirmed. lol.

Now stand 3-4 feet away and you'll be OK. Would have been useful information back in the day.

**blueboss** · 06-15-2018, 06:57 AM

Darrell, we’ll need you to pee in your iron please. If you wouldn’t mind, have someone film it.....from behind!!!!

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**kingcat** · 06-16-2018, 01:43 PM

"While juggling please"

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