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Originally Posted by Ned Senior If you were to hear the NOISE my son listens to "hip hop" he calls it, well.............etc etc 
Ned |
Oh dear.. I hope you will like the new countdown girl now that Ms Vorderman has been given the push.
Whilst I'm here I'll give you my recollection of model train sets from when i was a lad. They might have changed now, but there was a variable transformer with a knob which had an end with 2 prongs which slid under the track, each prong made contact with rail on the track and supplied the power for the trains.
I set it all up, plugged it it, popped the prongs in under the track, turned the knob on the transformer and nothing. Train just sat there.
I fiddled with the connections, nothing.
I pulled the prong thing out and tried to touch both bits with a piece of metal to see if there was any sparks meaning power there - nope.
I suddenly noticed that the switch on the plug outlet wasn't on - how silly of me. Train in one hand, prong thing in the other I popped the prong thing in my mouth to free my hand to lean over and flick the switch on....
It was only 12v I should imagine, but I will never forget the feeling of 12v going through my tongue.
I never played with trains again, I was only about 6 or 7.