Is This Bad Parenting?

[Rockingit]

When I was at college it was an old windy up megger.
Everyone got a chance to hold the leads, and the tutor would slowly build up the speed until the leads fell out the now pins and needles filled fingers….

then there was the guys he didn’t like much in the class….. they got full speed, full voltage straight away!

As far as your son is concerned, would someone on the forum be nearby to give them a realistic quote??

We used to do similar with an HT generator where one person would hold the +ve, another the -ve and then link hands around the room, waiting poised either side of the door to pounce on the unsuspecting victim who got to make the chain when they walked in.

 

[Zerax]

You haven't mentioned the age of your son, nor how big he is... so is he too old for a smacked bottom ?? In Blackadder parlance... "six of the best, trousers down"

 

[Intoelectrics]

I used to tell people you could measure your body resistance with the old megger, I'd hold the ends first with the dial set to ohms, then when it was their turn the dial would be very sneakily turned to the 500v setting. ?

I worked with a fella who would happily hold onto the ends of the leads and receive the 1000v test, It didn't seem to bother him in the slightest. I asked him what he felt, he just said it was a bit tingly and warm feeling.

 

[FatAlan]

Kids never listen to their parents. Point him in the direction of YouTube and tell him to start with safe isolation ? When it all goes wrong he’ll come running.

 

[westward10]

I worked with a fella who would happily hold onto the ends of the leads and receive the 1000v test, It didn't seem to bother him in the slightest. I asked him what he felt, he just said it was a bit tingly and warm feeling.

I do this once the initial jolt has passed you don't really feel anything.

 

[Mike Johnson]

You should give your son all the help he needs IMO he is your flesh and blood, don't even attempt to burn it, these days called bullying.

 

[FatAlan]

I have a brilliant dad, from a generation used to doing and fixing everything for themselves out of necessity. Helped me a lot with diy on my first house purchases and car maintenance. I remember having a manky old up and over garage door with a broken lock. When he saw it he said, I think I have a replacement lock that he’d kept from an old door he’d replaced years previously. Next time he visited he swapped it over. He’s just turned 80.

 

[telectrix]

I have a brilliant dad, from a generation used to doing and fixing everything for themselves out of necessity. Helped me a lot with diy on my first house purchases and car maintenance. I remember having a manky old up and over garage door with a broken lock. When he saw it he said, I think I have a replacement lock that he’d kept from an old door he’d replaced years previously. Next time he visited he swapped it over. He’s just turned 80.

my old man was just the same. he'd even straighten bent nails for re-use whenever. whittled bits of scrap wood for wall plugs, main concern was he'd not pay for an oil change on his car till the big ends started to rattle.

 

[FatAlan]

my old man was just the same. he'd even straighten bent nails for re-use whenever. whittled bits of scrap wood for wall plugs, main concern was he'd not pay for an oil change on his car till the big ends started to rattle.

Yep. Back in the late 70s my dads aluminium greenhouse was destroyed during a storm. He was able to claim for a new one on insurance. His dad, my grandfather, had just retired and moved in to a place just up the road. He came and collected all the twisted bits of frame, straightened them out and rebuilt it in his garden!

 

[OnlQQker]

Thanks for all of the replies. I have took them all on board and been over at his new house most of today.

It needs totally modernizing throughout, even the C/H piping and boiler. I've turned that off because when the boiler was lit their is a smell of Gas. Nothing in and outside of the house has been touched for years.
I had to do the same for my daughter with her first house. Took the staircase out at her newly purchased home and rebuilt it in such a way it put another bedroom upstairs, and made the downstairs kitchen big enough to get 4 people in afterwards. Before all of that work it was a one bedroom cluster with a one person kitchen and the biggest spiral staircase I had ever seen.

God knows what the architects were thinking?

Anyway after I did the house up for not much cost to her whatsoever, and supply half of the building materials, she then sold it for £45k profit, purchased another house and waits for me to do the same again.

I said, 'hold your horses' I owe your brother the same first.

My old man did nothing for me ever, all except for serious unconscious beatings from the age of 3 upwards. I think I've mentioned before he was very high up in a Building company as well as the church, I guess I embarrassed him because I would not follow in his footsteps, and be the big successful man
that he was, and rip off people to provide the lavish lifestyle that I grew up in myself as a kid.
Luckily though my mum was from the roughest area I have ever seen even to this day, and she grew up with absolutely zilch. Heating bricks up on an open fire, wrapping them in a towel and using it as a hot water bottle when she was growing up. I guess I carry her genes more.

It's had its price though, because for the last good few years I am classed as homeless, I don't have an address, this can and does make things difficult.
I could live with the kids, but that wouldn't be fair on them as they are just starting out in life, and having me there wouldn't exactly be easy for them. Neither of them can cook for a start off, let alone me going completely Gaga staring at cartoon like characters on a TV that they are controlling with a controller. I'd much rather just go live in the woods. Or climb Everest in a pair of Speedo's come to think of it. Anything but those computer games.

But their mum has been as good as gold since I did our daughters house up so where it all goes from here is anybody's guess.

Again thanks for all of the replies, their really are some decent people on this website and I know I go off topic every now and then, but the advice from here is solid. All of the Electricians I have met on site when younger were the only type of people that would ever talk to me.

I guess they saw the rock and the hard place I was between, because every trade and sub contractor was working for my Dad. And most of the trades could not stick me, and that's understandable now I'm older and can work it out.
But at the time it was a living hell.

SO, my son will not be touching the electrics, I've told him I had written about all of this on an electrical forum and the electricians on the forum do have the power to turn the whole house off from the main grid, therefore not only will he not be able to play his silly computer games, but he also wont be able to watch TV, have a shower, or use the outside light to see where to put his key in the door when it is dark.

I believe he has listened to me, otherwise I will have to go and locate that magic fairy main fuse puller.

I don't think it will go that far, but just in case, that's my plan....

Thanks again for all of the replies everybody!

If the mods want to close this thread because it doesn't really fit in with the main page topics then I fully understand, thanks for leaving it up this long!