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Re: Marking tools for easy readability

2009-11-08T11:26:38Z

(snip)
That is what I did, mainly to get smaller keys. Sure wish all the doors
had lock cylinders, though, like my old van. Or at least a separate fob
for the buttons, like it had. Damn cheap Chrysler.

Re: Splicing #14 wire, hot to neutral ratios....

2009-11-08T11:17:13Z

I was reading about the English "ring" circuit the other day and how they
abandoned the central fuse/breaker panel altogether and put fuses in each
plug! It's remarkable, I think, that there's so much uniformity in
electrical wiring. Keeping in mind that most regulatory bodies operate on
the tombstone basis (enough people die, time to regulate something!) that

Re: Drain pipe lining

2009-11-08T11:11:22Z

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This URL:
[link]
Details the process very, very nicely. It's certainly a good read for
anyone remotely interested in the process. They use robots to cut the
lateral feeds. With robots and cameras that actual can see the inside of

Re: Splicing #14 wire, hot to neutral ratios....

2009-11-08T11:06:31Z

wires
Yes. I erred by missing the "junction box" part of the statement about
pig-tailed neutrals although I've seen that happen in main panels when all
the busbar slots are full. That was a lot easier to fix than finding three
neutrals wire-nutted, pigtailed and jammed tight, not in a junction box, but

Re: attach a coaxial cable jack

2009-11-08T11:20:39Z

Okay, understand now. Being an EE, hopefully he used RG-6q, rather than
the cheap stuff. Are there other non-connected jacks? If so, may want to
do them all and get them over with. If not for you, then for the next
owner. Do you have room in on the splitter, or will you need to get a
bigger one? It is best to not daisy-chain splitters. If your signal

Re: attach a coaxial cable jack

2009-11-08T11:06:13Z

No, that is for real radios, and real coax. The ones you want are for
type F, either RG-6, or more likely RG-59.

Re: Who has the best AC plug?

2009-11-08T07:53:56Z

That article didn't even show a proper US plug. It showed an out of
date non-polarized two prong receptacle. No one would install those
anymore. Our standard three prong polarized receptacles and two and
three prong plugs seem to work just fine.

Re: Building Collapse....

2009-11-08T07:44:02Z

On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:38:35 -0500, Tony <tony.mik...@gmail.com>
wrote:
It's a little hard to see in the photos but to me it looks like the
pilings were actually made by first driving metal piles into the
ground and then filling the inside of them and encasing the outside of
them in concrete. most likely they drilled a hole to some depth, then

Re: Splicing #14 wire, hot to neutral ratios....

2009-11-08T07:01:38Z

[major snippage]
them
<<I don't think we're talking about the same thing. You wouldn't
install another neutral bus or even have a neutral bus in a simple
junction box that contains a switch for three lights, which is the
example I gave. And you certainly wouldn't ever pig tail neutrals
together in a panel box and then connect the pig tail to the neutral

Re: Splicing #14 wire, hot to neutral ratios....

2009-11-08T06:42:42Z

the
110VAC.
Oops. I knew there was something wrong with that sentence when I was moving
from the general to the specific. How about: Cold fusion electric water
heaters have igniters to start the fusion process? Or: They need an
igniter to activate a Maxwell's Demon that sorts the hotter water molecules

Re: Drain pipe lining

2009-11-08T06:39:07Z

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Excellent! It does, indeed answer many of them and more importantly, if the
project engineer ever answers his phone or returns messages, I've got a much
better understanding of the process. At first I thought the name was a
typo, but now I realize it's based on the Latin "in situ" - in place.

Re: Splicing #14 wire, hot to neutral ratios....

2009-11-08T06:41:21Z

Examples
and
What about air conditioner igniters? (-:

Re: Weatherproofing tips

2009-11-08T06:38:39Z

(is
find
several
generate
do
what
Not if I bum one from my chain smoking neighbor! (-: And it's a public
service, too. One less cigarette to gum up his lungs.

Re: Splicing #14 wire, hot to neutral ratios....

2009-11-08T06:24:21Z

power the
110VAC.
Yep, I stepped on my overflow pipe on that one. Appreciate the backup, but
I should have quit with "some 240VAC gear needs 110VAC and a neutral
connection." I got caught fair and square. President Bill taught me not to
do what he did. I wonder what would have happened had he confessed in

Re: Render DVDs Unusable?

2009-11-08T06:24:11Z

Chop them up like an old credit card, those EMT shears do a good job. If
the data is really sensitive then make the pieces small and divide them
between several trash containers.