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Bud--

On 4/27/2011 1:24 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:56:00 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

At least if you wrote an article on wringing gage blocks, you would
not add a paragraph every couple of years and require everyone that
wanted to wring gage blocks to buy the latest edition.

Well technically you are not required to buy the latest edition of the
NEC, but they sure do not sell a slim volume of the pen and ink
changes to bring a previous edition up to the current edition. If
they did sell something that had the differences in the latest edition
it would make understanding the code too easy and the NEC would not be
a barrier to reduce competition.

Dan

That is becoming a common gripe about the NEC. They produce a new
cycle every 3 years. The proposal period for changes is only open
about a year of that and it usually takes the municipalities more than
a year to get the new code adopted. This means that by the time the
real users get familiar enough with the new code to find problems it
is too late to get it changed for the next cycle. As you pointed out
it also generates a lot of money for NFPA being able to sell new books
every 3 years. Most of the professionals end up with a code book, a
handbook and a summary of changes book ... at least.
Now they also want to charge you for the PDF too, even if you bought
the book (there were a few early additions with a coupon for a free
PDF load included but they stopped that)

You are responding to a couple people that are presumably at the
crosspost at rec.crafts.metalworking but you are not crossposting there.