Capacitor discharge changed my bench routine for good

For years I would poke at old camera boards with a screwdriver and hope the charge was gone, which is stupid and I knew it. Last spring a Pentax Spotmatic gave me a nasty zap that threw my arm back, right in my home shop near Tacoma. Now I built a simple discharge tool from a 10k resistor and two alligator clips, cost me about 4 dollars and 20 minutes of soldering. I touch the leads to the cap terminals for a few seconds, then I check with my multimeter to confirm it reads zero. That one jolt taught me to never trust the visual, because those capacitors can hold a charge for weeks after the camera sits dead. Has anyone else gotten bit by a sneaky cap and changed their whole safety approach because of it?

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