On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:00:09 -0500, Ignoramus21834 wrote:

On 2014-08-29, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:
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I worked in this vault today for a couple of hours. Most everything
was live.


Employee -- "Boss, I might git kilt, if'n I touched one o' them bus
bars!"
Boss -- "Then don't touch 'em."

It was a whole different philosophy -- one about people's being
responsible for their own actions. Yeah, it was a more dangerous
existance, but at least we didn't have 'govenanny' breathing down our
shirt collars all day.

I love the fact that those rivetted bus bars 'floated' on rollers to
manage expansion with heating from higher current!


Lloyd, while I loved the antique appearance and the stimulating
apprehension of imminent danger, I would prefer modern equipment any
time, thank you. People make mistakes from time to time acd one mistake
should not cause death.

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Lloyd mistakes lucking out in who he was born to, and when, and where,
with virtue.

It's a much better world, of course, when people should be doomed to
working highly dangerous jobs just because they have the wrong parents.
And of course, it's a much better world if, when they die, their children
and dependents all starve.

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com