Most dangerous domestic appliance ever?

[Jonny_]

Allow me to present... the electric showerhead!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDz11GnF_jQ&eur...



Spot the inherent flaw? i.e. bare-arsed electric conductors directly in the water, with not so much as an isolating transformer in between the user and the mains...
Apparenty these works of genius are typically supplied with 'leccy via humourously bodge-tastic Costa Rican "wiring", presumably designed for shock value


Other interestingly-engineered bits of thermo-electric death here:

http://www.excelonlinestore.com/servlet/the-2.-Ele...

Once again:

[eldar]

Beware the Hoover Dustette, as the British Medical Journal details.


http://www.bmj.com/cgi/pdf_extract/281/6232/26

[anonymous-user]

I've always thought electric showers in general were quite dangerous. You've got a flow of pressurised water and a powerful electric current running within cm of each other, all built and sealed by the lowest possible bidder in the MrMiyagiMeloveyoulongtime factory.

Plus if anything does go wrong, you'll be standing naked in a pool of water at the time...

[Silent1]

Washing machines set on fire pretty regularly

[Jonny_]

eldar said:

Beware the Hoover Dustette, as the British Medical Journal details.


http://www.bmj.com/cgi/pdf_extract/281/6232/26

Haha, funny how many of 'em claim to hoover/fix hoovers in the nude!

[Famous Graham]

Most of the showers I used in Peru had exposed wiring in the bathroom Ok, still had the inner sheath (colour coded stuff), but nothing else. Somewhat alarming before you got used to it

[LOGiK]

I expected the content of this thread to be

"The Housewife"

[350GT]

LOGiK said:

I expected the content of this thread to be

"The Housewife"

My first thought was that Bobbitt lady!

[ellroy]

fridge with an UZI