In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 15 Sep 2019 17:26:08 -0400, Clare Snyder
wrote:

On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 21:00:29 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:13:12 -0400, Wade Gattett
wrote:


At the local Home Depot, the 20A switches were twice the cost of the 15A
ones. I'm thinking if the price difference was the same 33 years ago,
maybe that's why the electrical sub used them.

Maybe, but it seems to have lasted 33 years.

We ended up having a lot of problems with the general contractor for the
room addition where the fan was installed. What do they say about apples
not falling far from the tree?

So- is it OK to use a 15A switch on a 20A circuit? Could that have had
anything to do with the switch failure? Or are Slater switches not so hot?

--
When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald
the end of the republic.
- Benjamin Franklin

This is one of a series of conservative sentiments attributed to the US
founding fathers or other great historical figures that they never said.

And which were actually first said by conservatives in the 2nd half of
the 20th century or later.

https://fakefoundersquotes.tumblr.co...ote-themselves

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistoria..._that/d2r6lhl/

One screen down on this page, a sentence with the same meaning is
attributed to De Toqueville, but he never said it either. Nor did
Alexander Hamilton, another one to whom it's attributed.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...ection/321393/

At least not that has been recorded - any or all MAY have said it
some time or other "off the record"

If it wasn't recorded, how did the conservatives mannage to find a
version attributed to the various people they attributed it to. Face
it, they made up the quote.


The otherwise almost unknown Scot who said something similar, who was
cited in another post, was pessimistic about democracy in general. He
thought all democracies were doomed and this was just one stage each
would go through. Maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong. He has no history
of being a great man.

But more importantly, almost no one has heard of him. To attribute
something to him wouldn't give it the status that they hope to get who
attribute it to someone famous who did NOT say it. That's the purpose
of a forgery.