I came up with this question right after I wanted to take apart a microwave to see why it wasn’t heating anything before I remembered that that’s a very, VERY bad idea

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    • Laser / LED printers can blind you and may have larger capacitors.
    • Old CRT style TVs / Monitors can get you if not discharged correctly.
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        That is my understanding. I remember hearing stories about dudes visiting a dump or whatever, kicking through the screen of a CRT and getting zapped like fuck

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          Do you ever find that sometimes when you intervene in to other people’s conversations to pull out some of your best absolute cracker lines like “why don’t you google that?” that people just don’t react properly at all? Like you’d expect an appropriate response like some light cheering and maybe lifting you up on their shoulders and handing you a medal and at least a couple of trophies. You know, something befitting of your incisive and insightful contributions, and instead they just kinda stop talking to you? That’s so weird huh?

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            No I expect everyone not to be lazy fucks and do some basic research on one liner facts

            The original question I see as a useful conversation where a simple search would probably not give as valuable resultes.

            Where simple facts like “how long does a crt tube old a charge” is a Google thing.

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    If you’re gonna take a washing machine apart and you cut all the wires, make sure you cut the main electrical plug off as well or your dumbass son (me) will plug it in and electrocute himself with it.

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    I heard once that old smoke detectors have some radioactive isotopes in them. Not sure how true or dangerous but sounds bad.

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      Eh, I’m not sure about that broad. Macbooks say not to open them because “reasons”, but most items in there can be easily repaired

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        Actually not. They CAN be repaired, but are a nightmare of soldered and glued shit. The only apple thing I own (Linux/Android/Win user) is an iPad, which admittedly is a sweet performer, and iPads are just plain better tablets, but no way I’m cracking it open. I’ve replaced Android screens, repaired laptops, but fuck apple. Not because of danger, but because breakage is almost guaranteed on newer stuff.

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      Of course I understand caution with ⚡️, but just about everything has a ‘do not open’ label on it (in the litigous US anyway). Do we not care about right to repair?

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    Old CRT monitors. Particularly if they’ve been recently unplugged. There’s a cable in there my old teacher used to call “the superman cable”.

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    Old arcade machines. Giant capacitors + little knowledge on the subject = a very bad time.

    As with anything it can be done safely if you know how. People still play those and they obviously need repairs/maintenance sometimes.

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      BS. Just drain capacitors. I’ve repaired a few (worthwhile ones) by replacing caps. You just need to know how. As with anything, read up.

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    Holy shit, how has no one mentioned rechargable batteries?

    Lithium Ion batteries, commonly used in phones and the like, rapidly catches fire and emits acidic smoke that will melt your lungs when the battery is punctured.

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    I too was going to say microwave before reading the post body. Honestly though anything with a large capacitor, I can’t give you examples unfortunately because I study physics not electrical engineering but some of those fat fucking capacitors will fry you and they hold their charge.