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'How to' advice is not permitted on Misplaced Pages. it is an encyclopedia not an instruction manual.

The advice purports to advise the lay reader to touch a potentially live conductor. While an experienced engineer such as myself (and possibly yourself - I have no idea what your qualifications and experience are) may safely undertake such an obviously hazardous procedure, a person without such knowledge and experience should never consider even thinking about trying it.

As for the crack about open heart surgery not coming with a health warning - well actually: it does. No surgeon would carry out open heart surgery (or indeed any surgery) without a signed approval from the patient or his next of kin. Such an approval contains all the necessary notification of risks and potential hazards. 81.157.217.225 (talk) 08:20, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

I've got the same qualifications you do, buddy...I'm a 16 year old living in his parent's basement or I'm an unemployed permanent grad student who's putting off his dissertation another year or I'm a survivalist in Montana logging in by shortwave radio. If you can touch an external metallic surface of an applicance and get a shock, it's already defective...nothing the Misplaced Pages can do will save you.

Whilst I accept that you may well have the (lack of) qualifications that you state, I fortunately am not in the same league. I am a qualified electrical engineer in the aerospace business. Your last statement is a complete non sequiter. To advise someone to deliberately touch a conductor that may be live is advise that is as stupid as it is lethal. If you insist on reverting it in the article, it will be refered to an administrator. 86.141.192.254 (talk) 08:06, 2 March 2010 (UTC)