On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 19:23:38 -0500, Tekkie® wrote:

micky posted for all of us...

And I know how to SNIP


On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:36:17 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:

"micky" wrote in message
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 13:05:14 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:



Have no clue. Just thought I might try to get some utility out of the
thread and possible pick up some pointers about how to better use these
flexible drills I appear to have wasted money on. I had such high hopes
for
them that never materialized. I was replacing two prong outlets with
grounded ones.

In some cases I just settled for installing GFCI outlets without trying
to
pull a new ground wire.

Just to remind you, you don't need a ground wire or a 3rd prong for a
GFCI to work They measure the current in the hot and neutral and if
they are not the same, they trip. They don't use the ground at all
aiui.

I was aware of that, and that's why I put in GFCI's - so I could at least
accommodate 3 pin plugs without an adapter. Even have them labeled "No
Equipment Ground" using the little labels that come with the GFCI's (-:
Hated to do it because some equipment depends on having a connection to
ground, but 3 pin compatibility was more important at the time.

In other cases I installed completely new outlets -
the old wiring had only two(!) outlets per room. I guess in 1940, that
was
"hot stuff."

Darn right. I think of what my brother and had in my room in 1964.
Just a lamp on the desk and a clock radio. And I'd recently gotten sick
of the windup clock I used, because it ticked so loud, and I screamed
at it, and my mother had an unused electric alarm clock all along. (It-
might have had a radium dial so she didnt' want to use it until I
complained.)

And a ham radio receiver, but most people wouldn't have had that.

Hey, I had a Hallicrafters at the time. Still have the little Lafayette
stereo receiver I bought with settlement money from a car crash where some
idiot in an Impala ran a stop sign and our little Karmann Ghia virtually
dissolved when we broadsided him at 30+ MPH.

And that's pretty much all I had until I was 24, had roommates, and I
put a tv in my room. Still, two double outlets was enough. That was
until '74.

The world has certainly changed in that short time. I've been installing
four foot long outlet strips that Harbor Freight sells on all of the
workbenches and along the kitchen counter. I wouldn't even hazard a guess
about how many things are plugged in around the house, but I'll bet it's
over 100.

Yes, I have 5 clock-like things right next to my bed alone.

The DVDR,
the VCR (though there's no point in setting the time since I don't have
the right remote and can only tape at the highest quality, 2 hours on
one tape)
The clock radio I listen to the radio with and which has good sound.
The clock radio I use to wake up with which is little and has terrible
sound, but a very nice alarm, that starts low and gets louder.
The atomic clock that someone sold me for 1 dollar at a hamfest, which
I'm supposed to use to set the time on the DVDR, which often has the
time a minute or two off even though it has an automatic setting. My
friend who got a later model has the same problem. This uses

What's your address and when are you away? Sounds like one stop shopping to me!

I'll be away tomorrow most of the day.

My address is 127.0.0.1 .