When I was a child my folks had this box fan in living room summer time.
The motor would get hot and I held crayons 2 it was intriguged by how the hot fan motor melted them and drip allover the carpet.
One day my Father came home and my Mom said look at this rug your boy melted crayons on the fan
Oh wow he took his belt off that day gave me 10/12 swings I had giant welts couldnt sit down for a week.
After all that I never melted crayons in the living room on the box fan.
Later on I would get an electric train set for my birthday.
Then I found that if ya took the power suppy to tracks stripped the wires ya could chew out a pencil hook up the pencil lead to the wires and it would glow "Red Hot" also was a very old house blew out the breaker but ya just went down the basement reset the switch in the box.
Now that time my Dad didnt even take off his belt he just Punched me and started kicking me allover the floor until my Momma pleaded with him 2 stop says ya gonna "Kill" him