{"id":8825,"date":"2007-06-12T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/12\/magic-skin\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:42","slug":"magic-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/12\/magic-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_7687-2-scaled.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>My skin being less resistant due to metallic enhancement.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_7689-scaled.jpg\">wet sanding the front panel of my second x0xb0x<\/a> (in order to ensure that none of the original labeling <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_1748-scaled.jpg\">bleeds through<\/a>) I found that, per usual, the hand I used to keep the piece of metal from sliding around was a dull grey color. That color comes from the aluminum dust ground off the plate embedded in my skin.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that there was metal in my skin made me grab the multimeter and see if that part of my skin was more conductive than the other, less metallic hand. Well, as expected, it was. As you can see above, the first finger on my left (metalized) hand provided 1.028M\u2126 of resistance. <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_7686-scaled.jpg\">The same finger on my right hand, which was also washed a few minutes prior with the same soap, gave a reading of 4.451 M\u2126.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My skin being less resistant due to metallic enhancement. After wet sanding the front panel of my second x0xb0x (in order to ensure that none of the original labeling bleeds through) I found that, per usual, the hand I used to keep the piece of metal from sliding around was a dull grey color. That\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12805,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8825\/revisions\/12805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}