How Old Was You When You Became Interested In Electrics?

[OnlQQker]

I was 7. I painstakingly removed 2 screws from a power socket with a small pair of scissors and then tried to unscrew the live in the same fashion.
This is how I became painfully became interested in them, how about you?

 

[Mike Johnson]

I can't remember when I first became interested in Electronics/Electrics, but it was well over sixty five years ago, and I am still learning.

 

[Pete999]

I can't remember when I first became interested in Electronics/Electrics, but it was well over sixty five years ago, and I am still learning.

At what age Mike? don't be shy now.

 

[Mike Johnson]

No chance that would sound to much like the old guy down the pub "I'm xx old you know"

 

[Pete999]

No chance that would sound to much like the old guy down the pub "I'm xx old you know"

I'm 73 older or younger? don't be coy not many Ladies watching. if you're older then you are passed it if younger still a chance only a slim one though

 

[Mike Johnson]

I'm so past it, it takes all night to do what I used to do all night.

 

[Pete999]

I'm so past it, it takes all night to do what I used to do all night.

In yer dreams Mate in yer Dreams

 

[Mike Johnson]

Maybe for you, but I still manage.

 

[Pete999]

Maybe for you, but I still manage.

Manage being the operative word????

 

[Mike Johnson]

Reminds me of the two old army guys sitting in the retirement home, one says to the other "Tell me Stanley are you a once'r or a twice'r" Stanley replies "Definitely a twice'r" "Which do your prefer" says his opposite number, Stanley after some thought says "Definitely the Spring one"

 

[ruston]

Reminds me of the two old army guys sitting in the retirement home, one says to the other "Tell me Stanley are you a once'r or a twice'r" Stanley replies "Definitely a twice'r" "Which do your prefer" says his opposite number, Stanley after some thought says "Definitely the Spring one"

Reminds me of the two old army guys sitting in the retirement home, one says to the other .
Remember that stuff they used to put in our tea in WW1 to stop us feeling randy... well I think it is starting to work.

 

[telectrix]

Reminds me of the two old army guys sitting in the retirement home, one says to the other .
Remember that stuff they used to put in our tea in WW1 to stop us feeling randy... well I think it is starting to work.

WW1???? i knew you were old but......

 

[freddo]

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^ Well that didn't work! ^

Ever since I was very little I loved playing with wires and plugging things in. Likes taking things apart to see how they worked. I was 11 when I repaired my first TV and by the end of secondary school I had repaired a huge number of brown goods. I'm 31 now and almost obsessed with wiring and repairing and restoring things. I'd rather be doing something electrical or mechanical rather than doing anything else. Had a few shocks as a school boy, quickly learned that when you remove a bulb from a series string of xmas lights the voltage across the bulb holder is no longer 12V! I still remember the bang and the blinding flash when I connected my multimeter across the mains with the leads in the current measuring position.

Age 7 it was clocks (I'll say that carefully)

I've just started to get interested in clocks (master and slave clocks and their associated controls) fascinating stuff. Not that I need any more interests)

plastecine + wire = Non approved methods.

I remember using stripped insulation as sleeves to hold wires on to components before I got a soldering iron.

Only thing I ever caught with burglar alarm was
.. Cat or sister

I also remember playing with stuff like that, got an old alarm PIR from an abandoned building. It was a Racal guardall IR77 mkii. How on earth I remember that...

I still have a collection of 5A round pin somewhere !

I have always loved playing with electrical things, I have a collection of vintage electrical things that is probably larger than is healthy, some really odd stuff too. Plenty of light bulbs also. Discharge lighting is fantastic, and old theatre lighting is just something else! LED lights are so boring. Nothing like the 2000W metal halide fittings I'm currently refurbishing.
I don't have any photos of me playing with electrical stuff from years ago, though I think my mother has one or two at home, so have a photo of my 2 master clocks.

 

[Edtwozeronine]

I attempted to perform electrolysis at 15/16 with a friend as we wanted to make hydrogen gas and collect it to make explosive balloons. What actually happened was that we put the negative of a 240v 2 core down into a science flask full of water, then put the positive down into it and all the electric went off.

 

[MJPD29]

I had absolutely zero interest until the 3rd year if my apprenticeship. It was just a means to make money until then. I suppose once I had a decent understanding of how things worked I realised I actually liked it.

 

[Mark42]

My dad got me an electronics kit when I was about 7 or 8...a Phillips Electronic Engineer kit, to make Morse buzzer, radios etc. ...

Wow, how lovely to see that again. I was given mine in about 1967.

I can remember every detail of it now: germanium AC126 and AF116 transistors packed individually in their Mullard boxes, beautiful polyester caps, shiny blue Philips electrolytics, and those weird hairclip and spring terminals, which fitted into the hardboard base. I absolutely loved that kit and spent hours with it, making and remaking the circuits.

I'd been taking things to pieces ever since I could hold a screwdriver: my father was often infuriated but it rarely stopped me. Mains shocks were routine in those days, and nobody thought it a big deal then.