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Subject:Re: Blue sparks afire
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Sat, 8 Apr 1995 10:09:28 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Matt Bushore wrote:
>  
> I grabbed hold of the wires, and now the little sparks
> were jumping to me, but I couldn't feel them.  Is a little
> leakage normal?
> 
It was on my '72 with new wires and a Blue Bosch coil. It startled me too,
one day when I was fiddling around with my van one summer evening and the
light was fading. It reminded me of some cheesey S.F. special effect, and
I expected crackling blue cobwebs to run up my arm...

Alistair