On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:33:23 -0500,
wrote:

...
what do they mean by door number 3?

You guys do know Iggy is Russian..right? That may..may be out of his
knowlege base

Gunner, exiting stage right

Exit stage right may be outside Iggy's knowledge base also

Karl

VBG

Indeed. Iggy does American very well..but there are nuances that only a
lifetime speaker..slang generally...not often encountered that most
transplants take years picking up on.

Gunner

One could not be a successful Leftwinger without realizing that,
in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers
and mothers of Leftwingers, a goodly number of Leftwingers are
not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
Gunner Asch

On 2012-01-05, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:33:23 -0500,
wrote:

...
what do they mean by door number 3?

You guys do know Iggy is Russian..right? That may..may be out of his
knowlege base

Gunner, exiting stage right

Exit stage right may be outside Iggy's knowledge base also

Karl

VBG

Indeed. Iggy does American very well..but there are nuances that only a
lifetime speaker..slang generally...not often encountered that most
transplants take years picking up on.

Also, I never watch TV.

i

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"PrecisionmachinisT" wrote in message
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"Ignoramus8679" wrote in message
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On 2012-01-05, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:59:17 -0600, Ignoramus8679
wrote:

On 2012-01-05,
wrote:
...
what do they mean by door number 3?

You guys do know Iggy is Russian..right? That may..may be out of his
knowlege base

Gunner, exiting stage right

Exit stage right may be outside Iggy's knowledge base also

At some point, I did not even know what a "third base" was. But I knew
how to get there.

We talkin' baseball or babes here?


Definitely not baseball.

American pop culture...when there exist three possible options, they are
sometimes referred to as door 1, door 2, or door 3

SEE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dating_Game

"Typically, a bachelorette would question three bachelors, who were hidden
from her view; at the end of the questioning period, she would choose one
to go out with on a date paid for by the show"



The doors refer to "Let's make a Deal"....


Perhaps.

Same diff though.

"Ignoramus8679" wrote in message ...

Indeed. Iggy does American very well..but there are nuances that only a
lifetime speaker..slang generally...not often encountered that most
transplants take years picking up on.

Also, I never watch TV.
i

Confusion from literary allegories can be dangerous in diplomacy. When a
Russian quoted the line about horses and men pressed together from
Lermontov's "Borodino" to imply a confusing situation it took us a while to
figure out what he was talking about.

jsw

On 2012-01-05, Jim Wilkins wrote:

"Ignoramus8679" wrote in message ...

Indeed. Iggy does American very well..but there are nuances that only a
lifetime speaker..slang generally...not often encountered that most
transplants take years picking up on.

Also, I never watch TV.
i

Confusion from literary allegories can be dangerous in diplomacy. When a
Russian quoted the line about horses and men pressed together from
Lermontov's "Borodino" to imply a confusing situation it took us a while to
figure out what he was talking about.


So true!

i

On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 12:38:23 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:


"PrecisionmachinisT" wrote in message

American pop culture...when there exist three possible options, they are
sometimes referred to as door 1, door 2, or door 3

SEE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dating_Game

"Typically, a bachelorette would question three bachelors, who were hidden
from her view; at the end of the questioning period, she would choose one
to go out with on a date paid for by the show"

Not even, boyo. That was Bachelor #1, Bachelor #2, or Bachelor #3.

It was Let's Make a Deal's winners who got to choose between the
doors. http://goo.gl/u7gvt


--
It takes as much energy to wish as to plan.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:50:02 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 12:38:23 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:


"PrecisionmachinisT" wrote in message

American pop culture...when there exist three possible options, they are
sometimes referred to as door 1, door 2, or door 3

SEE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dating_Game

"Typically, a bachelorette would question three bachelors, who were hidden
from her view; at the end of the questioning period, she would choose one
to go out with on a date paid for by the show"

Not even, boyo. That was Bachelor #1, Bachelor #2, or Bachelor #3.

It was Let's Make a Deal's winners who got to choose between the
doors. http://goo.gl/u7gvt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XniGO3eS_wg

--
Ned Simmons

By the way, we are having a lively discussion about this transformer,
at mikeholt forums.

http://forums.mikeholt.com/showthread.php?t=142090

i

Tom Del Rosso wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Tom Del Rosso wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Ignoramus8679 wrote:

Does a dry type transformer actually have any combustible
materials?


One caught fire in the transformer vault at my highschool one
summer. It powered the newest wing of the school, and you could
still smell it, two years later.

Wouldn't that have been oil-filled?


How do you suggest that they fill a dry transformer with oil?

Ok, so you could see it well enough in the "vault". I thought a big
installation like that would have the same type I have on my pole. Maybe
because my high school had 3000 students.


So what? Ours was about half that size and had three transformer
rooms, one in each wing. The transformer that failed was two years old,
and the largest on campus. It took Westinghouse six months to built the
replacement, and have a crane brought in to place it into the vault.


--
You can't have a sense of humor, if you have no sense.

"Ignoramus8679" wrote in message
...
By the way, we are having a lively discussion about this transformer,
at mikeholt forums.

http://forums.mikeholt.com/showthread.php?t=142090



Yup, I saw that....

--pretty sure there's an old uncased transformer I salvaged from an old
welding machine some years ago that's still kicking around here someplace
myself....

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 12:38:23 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:


"PrecisionmachinisT" wrote in message

American pop culture...when there exist three possible options, they are
sometimes referred to as door 1, door 2, or door 3

SEE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dating_Game

"Typically, a bachelorette would question three bachelors, who were
hidden
from her view; at the end of the questioning period, she would choose
one
to go out with on a date paid for by the show"

Not even, boyo. That was Bachelor #1, Bachelor #2, or Bachelor #3.

It was Let's Make a Deal's winners who got to choose between the
doors. http://goo.gl/u7gvt


Oh well...

--just shows that I didn't waste as much time watching that kind of crap as
certain others might have.

Spehro Pefhany wrote:


Your custom unwinding and tap modification on the transformer voided
it's UL listing. Be sure you only ever have it powered when you are
testing something, if it were to go poof in the night and burn your
building down, your insurance would likely not pay.

How is going to go "poof"? It's encased in a steel box.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

Stuff in steel boxes goes "poof" ALL the time
jk

"PrecisionmachinisT" wrote:



what do they mean by door number 3?

Adding some sort of ground fault detection device...

IOW, a big ass GFI

A ground detection device does not need to be a GFi. Traditionally it
was a "3 light system" (usually done with neons). You wire the 3
bulbs in Wye, ground the center point, and connect one of the
remaining wires to each leg of the delta. When you get a ground on a
phase, that light goes out, or gets dim, and you know you have a
problem. Also provides a system ground reference that eliminates
"charge pumping".
jk

On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:39:49 -0800, jk wrote:

Spehro Pefhany wrote:


Your custom unwinding and tap modification on the transformer voided
it's UL listing. Be sure you only ever have it powered when you are
testing something, if it were to go poof in the night and burn your
building down, your insurance would likely not pay.

How is going to go "poof"? It's encased in a steel box.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

Stuff in steel boxes goes "poof" ALL the time
jk

Indeed it does!!!

Sometimes,...rather spectacularly


One could not be a successful Leftwinger without realizing that,
in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers
and mothers of Leftwingers, a goodly number of Leftwingers are
not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
Gunner Asch