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If I live to be a million years old I will never grasp why people think it's OK to Mickey Mouse something that presents a very real "burn the whole house down" possibility.
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MrYenko posted:A friend of the family had an incident with a high-pressure steam valve at work when I was a kid. (Him and my father worked together at an oil-fired steam turbine power plant.) Yikes. How much of his flesh grew back?
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May 4, 2013 19:36
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DNova posted:Yeah, it's actually normal for utility workers to rest their ladders on telco cables like that. Not on the cables but the support strand  Yeah also a telco or cable employee will (or at least should) be using a fiberglass ladder with hooks and have a leather harness to secure himself and the ladder to the strand, not a rope that will become a fashionable tourniquet should something go awry. Also hard hats, gloves, voltage detector and the like. If they were caught working aloft as pictured above it'd be immediate termination.
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May 12, 2013 18:48
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Bad Munki posted:Stop, you're giving me deja vu. I kind of like the paint job but the ivory switchplates, dark grey carpets, and dark brown door are really not complimentary. If you're going to choose a funky paint scheme you need to go all the way.
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Jun 28, 2013 01:14
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Motronic posted:Minimum ring to meet standard in the US is 75 VAC. Yeah, just a standard idling line is 45-50 volts. I'd have to test again but I think ring is usually more like 90 volts.
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Aug 7, 2013 17:54
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Motronic posted:On most POTS lines in the former Bell Atlantic area they shoot for 88 VAC. Not sure about other areas, but I'm sure it's quite similar. Many older phones with actual bell ringers won't work with ATAs, even the ones supplied by the likes of Verizon (for Fios phone) and Comcast because they don't quite produce enough voltage and/or amperage to make something like that ring properly. ...or if you're scaling a utility pole and your (sweaty) forearm brushes a dry rotted telephone drop, it's pretty invigorating. 
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Aug 7, 2013 23:28
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Blistex posted:Just finished fixing a 5 year old roof that had a peak that was shingled like this. . . I hope someone got (successfully) sued for that.
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Aug 28, 2013 18:38
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I used to know a guy who wired up home theaters and structured audio. While it's not as critical as a roof, he just did legendarily lovely work...I mean tangled up, disorganized, and just generally useless. Of course why people chose him when he didn't have a storefront or inventory to show (wait, I know why: he worked cheap). Naturally once he had the cash he would vanish. No support at all. In fact our company had to go behind and re-work a lot of poo poo (no complaints about the money from us of course). The kicker is that he was doing all of this shady, sloppy work for like two decades last I knew. It wasn't as though he was operating in a huge community so I have no idea how he hadn't been put out of business years ago. Kind of a shame, he was just too short sighted to build a real business since his MO was to do the quick and dirty.
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Aug 28, 2013 22:33
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Blistex posted:They paid a guy to do their roof because he said he could do it cheap. . . nuff said. Not to victim-blame, because the allure of saving money is strong...but if their main selling point is "cheap"...
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Aug 29, 2013 19:25
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Baronjutter posted:That's just ascetics though. Huh...and here I thought they just stuck to fasting and self-flagellation.
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I love it when people just daisy chain a line (such as the one going from the living room to two rooms upstairs) to save 10' on a run. 
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