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Production alternator rebuilding. I used a 1KV high pot setting to test alternator caps. 24 hours later they were required to have had held a charge. We had a worker named "Bill" every so often we would hear SNAP followed by curses and tumbling slip ring end housings. But it doesn't beat the high school metal shop prank of filling the huge concrete sink tub with acetylene gas then wait for some poor victim to come racing holding a red hot piece of steel with a set of tongs.