So have I (and similar hazardous things), but it's definitely not safe - you and I have just been lucky. .... but I have also, in my time, seen a good few examples of what can happen when fingers get muddled up with rotating machinery - and I wouldn't wish it on anyone, least of all myself!
As I wrote earlier, Method 4 in the link would, provided the value was within the capabilities of the meter. ... but who would be interested in measuring 'the value', when it's written on the component - it's surely a fault that one would want to look for, not a change in 'value' (capacitance) !!
I don't think you get it. You've done it, I've done it, and I dare say many of those reading this have done it, or something similar, and we've probably all 'got away with that' (and we might well even 'do it again' in the future). However, there's a world of difference between what we've decided to do ourselves and advising someone on a DIY forum to do it.
Nope, but nor should you advise someone in a public DIY forum to hold the chuck of a drill whilst it is spinning.
Of a small 12 μF capacitor associated with a tiny motor in a DIY pillar drill? No, definitely not. Why would an 'oil tech' be involved with such an issue, anyway?
You tell me - it was you who brought drill chucks into the discussion!
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