Fried impala anyone?

foggy · #1

My dad's impala got fried yesterday. He was trimming a gasket on a stainless tank in a coffee maker. The tip touched a hot wire and being sharp cut right through and arched to the tank leaving the damage at the base of the blade and a few nicks near the tip. I wonder if this is covered by the warranty? But even if it isn't at least mine is still in perfect shape. :p

foggy · #2

another pic.

HoB · #3

Man, thank god your father is fine. That could have very easily been a fried father instead of a fried Impala. Say, your father has never heard of unplugging an electrical device before attempting to fix it :rolleyes: ? Especially one that draws a lot of amps....

Anyway, reading between the lines, I am happy to hear your dad is ok :D !

ghostrider · #4

I too am glad to hear your father is okay. Knives can be replaced.

smcfalls13 · #5

Whoa :eek: That ain't cool at all. Glad to hear your dads ok though.

Man I opened this thread thinking someone had dropped their impala into a fryer... :p

knightrider · #6

That looks like it could have been very deadly for your father. Someone was looking out for him thats for sure. It's amazing that the electricity just melted a chunk out of the blade, what would it do to a person? How long did the whole incident take, just a split second?

Tim8557 · #7

Maybe you've invented some kind of new wierd "Wave" :D

Woody · #8

Lucky man your pop is.... I got nailed by a 220 one time... No fun at all... That really tought me my lesson to unplug stuff before atempting to fix or repair... Glad dad is OK...

tonydahose · #9

Woody wrote:Lucky man your pop is.... I got nailed by a 220 one time... No fun at all... That really tought me my lesson to unplug stuff before atempting to fix or repair... Glad dad is OK...

220 is not fun to get hit with, that actually can do some real damage. glad everybody is ok, on both mishaps.

DamnYank! · #10

warranty??? maybe if you bought it at Sears :D i produced the same results some years back on one of my Craftsman screwdrivers. took it in, they gave me a new one with a smile!

Axlis · #11

Whoa :eek: Thats quite "shocking" :p !

Seriously though, I'm Glad to hear your dad didn't get hurt. :)

vampyrewolf · #12

One of the first lessons I learned the hard way is to unplug all power supplies or flip breakers. Doesn't help though when you have a shared wall between 2 rooms on a 3rd breaker at the bottom of the box. BZZZT! :eek:

I was nailed with the 240v line on the forklift charger at the tarp factory... standing on the forks... reaching around the tower to unplug the charger. :eek: :o I have a very firm belief that it was the inch of solid rubber on my boots that saved me. My arms were smoking, never mind the pain. Hurt for about a week on that one. Not even gonna make a guess what it was running at on the forklift side, had a 5amp fuse and 3amp draw on the charger itself(as well as the breaker on the other side of the shop).

110v is a joke after that.

Kind of like my uncle... works for the provincial power company. The lines he does most of his work on are 13Kv. He just uses insulated tools to work on 110v, at least he knows when the sucker is connected.

Glad it's not just my family with such SHOCKING habits :p

spydutch · #13

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Glad your dad is OK

foggy · #14

The only thing I still havn't found is if the blade got softened from the heat. Why he didn't unplug it I'm not sure but He may have been in the process of testing and needed to trim a little rubber. He wasn't worried about the knife cutting the wire just from touching it, after all his buck never did that!

WOTANSON1 · #15

I think it's a count your lucky stars type of moment.

Cheers,
Rob

Chris_H · #16

smcfalls13 wrote:Man I opened this thread thinking someone had dropped their impala into a fryer... :p

HA HA -- me too!

Glad it just made a cool forum thread for you, and nothing more serious for your Pops.

markIVbigblock · #17

I did that too my poliwog a few months ago the shop i work in had crap extension cords in the finishing dept. and so a grinder was taped to one to keep the cords from pulling apart on a grinder well i needed to plug something else in so i decided to cut the tape with my poliwog not thinking and it sliced right through and arced on the two terminals of the plug leaving 2 very neat spots on my blade anyways everyone here seems to think 110 is a joke well its not its actually more dangerous than 220, 110 is right at the voltage that will stop your heart thats why most european countries use voltages that are different although high voltages are no joke when i worked in the electric motor shop me and a guy got sent to troubleshoot a motor control in a foundry well the guy reached around to shut the machine off but someone took the switchplate off and his hand went right to a hot wire and he was grabbing for a crowbar which was laying in a puddle he took 480 volts at a full 60 amps it burned the hair right off his arms and he was goofy for a week.

Aaron

TheKnifeCollector · #18

'Tis better to have a fried Impala, than a fried Dad!! Send it back to Spyderco, they can fix or replace it for you. I would.

dialex · #19

foggy wrote:...He wasn't worried about the knife cutting the wire just from touching it, after all his buck never did that!

That was a sweet one.

I don't think this kind of accident is covered by the warranty, but you can send the knife back to the factory, where they can replace the blade or cut some serrations to hide that ugly dent (I've seen similar treatment to a Military which came with exactly the same problem - blade chipped due to electric arc).