[Interious]

I actually had a 12000 volt neon sign transformer when I was in the 5th grade--about 1970. I once managed to get my hands across the high voltage terminals and took the full load while doing a Jacob's ladder demonstration at school! Why am I not dead?

[Delta 21]

My and friend made a tesla coil for our science project when we were juniors. We hand wound a 6 foot stinger and piggy backed a couple of (real) train transformers (his dad worked for the railroad) up to around a zillion volts. It lit up all the flourescent lights in the gym when we turned it on. Blue lightning bolts shooting out of the top and hearing damage all around.

[AnAmericanMother]

Why am I not dead?

'Cause "it's the volts that jolts, but the mils that kills!"

Words to live by.

I'm not going to say a word about the huge report shells we made from ultrafine German aluminum and potassium perchlorate . . . nope, not a word.

But all the streetlights on our block thought it was daylight and turned off . . . and the sheriff's deputy was hovering in the area for several hours trying to figure out just what had happened . . . while we were hiding under our beds going, "Gee, I hope Dad never finds out where that came from . . . "

He never did.