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Originally Posted by crystalworks
Yes, good idea to verify the motor is dead before gutting the regulator. I made note as well of the cable cutting tools. It was an instance of "I'm here, I have a solid pair of dikes in my hand, I don't want to set up an extension cord and dremel that are a whole 20 feet away from me... this'll do it."  |
I have numerous tools with dents and dings from a "primitive Pete" move as described above. I also have cut live wires on a 20A 120v Circuit. Turned my $60 special high voltage side cutter into a wire stripper for maybe 12ga wire. Almost a perfect hole the size of the copper.
I "got it from my dad". He had a couple wrenches with a nice bite out of them. One he said he dropped on a 48v battery pack from a fighter jet.
One of my wire strippers has 3 little bites about 1/4 " diameter , 1/16" deep where I hit the grounded box while stripping a live 120. It sounds a bit like a gun going off. Bang bang bang. Didn't even blow the fuse.
As a last resort at a time when I didn't have an automatic wire tracer to locate which circuit breaker, I will dead short the hot line. The most assured way to open the breaker on that line. Always close my eyes on that one but it's darn loud.
(Back from tangent).
The proper way to primitive Pete cut a small aircraft cable (up to about 1/8) is an anvil (can be anything heavy and steel, a chisel and a hammer). Very effective and all the tools will survive.