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Originally Posted by MikeB52

. And as an extra factoid, 30 amps can stop your heart they say.
Cheers!

30 amps will broil you. 30 milli amps will stop your heart.
But those amps only exist in the short circuit. You can grab a car battery with naked hands, because the current (amps) is voltage divided by resistance. And for 12V, the amps are way too low to do any damage, even if a short circuited car battery delivers 600 amps.

Originally Posted by Bruno

30 amps will broil you. 30 milli amps will stop your heart.
But those amps only exist in the short circuit. You can grab a car battery with naked hands, because the current (amps) is voltage divided by resistance. And for 12V, the amps are way too low to do any damage, even if a short circuited car battery delivers 600 amps.

Right, I was going to say 40 milliamps. I think that even the electric chairs are below 30 amps at ~13kv, all that dimming the lights of the city stuff is crap.

Ground fault outlets are set to trip at ~ 5 milliamps for this reason.

Electrothermal Ring Burn From a Car Battery | Orthopedics

Google is your friend... Found page after page with gore.

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Originally Posted by bluesman7

Right, I was going to say 40 milliamps. I think that even the electric chairs are below 30 amps at ~13kv, all that dimming the lights of the city stuff is crap.

13kv would turn the head inside out and burn limbs off and set them a blaze. More like 2kv.

Voltage of an Electric Chair

Originally Posted by jmercer

Electrothermal Ring Burn From a Car Battery | Orthopedics

Google is your friend... Found page after page with gore.

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I got a kick out of the article mentioning mechanics using stainless steel wrenches. Alright they're doctors not mechanics.

Other than that. This is no laughing matter.


The electric chair article mentions 7-12 amps in the 2kv range. My bad about the voltages, but the amps are well below 30.

I had to laugh at this one...................

"Blood appeared to pour from the mouth and ooze from the chest of Allen Lee 'Tiny' Davis as he was hit with 2,300 volts at 7:10 a.m. But the governor's office said it was simply a nosebleed."

Hah! Nosebleed my a**

Been cleaning up this Viscount Rolls Razor, came with all the box and paper work in great shape.
The body is aluminium, hone is intact but the strop needs some work the glue stuff that was holding the leather in place is all,hard and crumbling so need to work on this till.







At least I know where the tarnish went

Some after pics

I have a couple of them & they are in pretty good shape with the instructions but last year, I got lucky & found these, a replacement hone & strop for a Rolls:



Here are my Rolls, 2 different styles. One has round buttons on the ends & the other has long buttons marked S for strop & H for hone.





Substance, also there is a slot in the side & yours has it too for a place to put the shaving handle:



I also found this tag in the bottom of one of them:



Also, most of them have the dates of the blades on the back side, this blade is 1945:



I have seen some as old as 1927 but people want a lot for them unless they don't know. I got one of mine off eBay for $11 plus shipping & the other from an antique shop but it was more but not as much as some ask on the bay.

G'day Steve, mine has the square type buttons and my blade has F A & 7 the A could be for Aluminium? But no year

What's on the back of the new leather, is it clean or does it have a glue patch of some sort?


I cleaned the glue of the back of mine as it was crumbling apart and was thinking about using a foam type double sided tape on it to get about 1mm thick, also I could use a piece of Roo leather as its about the same thickness as the original.
Here's a pic of the storage instructions I mentioned also