A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/turnstyler/DSC_02771_zps2f8ce90c.jpg

Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare
failures, push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)

--
Adrian C

In message , Adrian C
writes
A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/turnstyler/DSC_02771_zps2f8ce90c.jpg

Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare
failures, push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)


Winfield, eh?

Wasn't that Woolworth's


--
geoff

On 05/01/2013 13:58, geoff wrote:
In message , Adrian C

Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare
failures, push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Winfield, eh?

Wasn't that Woolworth's


Yup. Back in the days that branding mean't longevity :-)

--
Adrian C

On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:48:17 +0000, Adrian C
wrote:

A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/turnstyler/DSC_02771_zps2f8ce90c.jpg

Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare
failures, push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)

Do as I do and put a series diode in the plug. Failures will be even
rarer as the bulbs will be underrun and look less bright (an advantage
IMO). Also, my cortex can just about detect the 50hz flicker which
gives them an added ethereal quality.

--
Graham.
%Profound_observation%

On 05/01/2013 12:48, Adrian C wrote:
A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/turnstyler/DSC_02771_zps2f8ce90c.jpg


Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare failures,
push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)

As Twelfth Night is the end of Christmas, we were discussing the
Decoration Police knocking on the door: "Evening all. I have reason to
believe you might still have a Christmas card upon your mantel."

Operating, of course, under the control of Stephen Fry in his Malvolio
character.

--
Rod

On Saturday 05 January 2013 13:58 geoff wrote in uk.d-i-y:

In message , Adrian C
writes
A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/turnstyler/DSC_02771_zps2f8ce90c.jpg

Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare
failures, push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)


Winfield, eh?

Wasn't that Woolworth's



Yes - ah brings back memories...

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On 05/01/2013 14:32, polygonum wrote:
On 05/01/2013 12:48, Adrian C wrote:
A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/turnstyler/DSC_02771_zps2f8ce90c.jpg



Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare failures,
push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)

As Twelfth Night is the end of Christmas, we were discussing the
Decoration Police knocking on the door: "Evening all. I have reason to
believe you might still have a Christmas card upon your mantel."

Operating, of course, under the control of Stephen Fry in his Malvolio
character.

Also next year blue Christmas lights will be forbidden. Why are cars and
lorries allowed to display blue lights? Has the world gone mad? Don't
answer that!

--
Remember the early bird may catch the worm but the second mouse gets the
cheese.

On 05/01/2013 17:55, Broadback wrote:

Also next year blue Christmas lights will be forbidden. Why are cars and
lorries allowed to display blue lights? Has the world gone mad? Don't
answer that!

What?
What is the source of your information?


--
Blow my nose to email me

On 05/01/2013 17:55, Broadback wrote:
On 05/01/2013 14:32, polygonum wrote:
On 05/01/2013 12:48, Adrian C wrote:
A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/turnstyler/DSC_02771_zps2f8ce90c.jpg




Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare failures,
push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)

As Twelfth Night is the end of Christmas, we were discussing the
Decoration Police knocking on the door: "Evening all. I have reason to
believe you might still have a Christmas card upon your mantel."

Operating, of course, under the control of Stephen Fry in his Malvolio
character.

Also next year blue Christmas lights will be forbidden. Why are cars and
lorries allowed to display blue lights? Has the world gone mad? Don't
answer that!

Ah! They'll all have to be yellow. And cross-gartered.

--
Rod

In article , polygonum
wrote:
On 05/01/2013 17:55, Broadback wrote:
On 05/01/2013 14:32, polygonum wrote:
On 05/01/2013 12:48, Adrian C wrote:
A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/turnstyler/DSC_02771_zps2f8ce90c.jpg




Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare
failures, push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)

As Twelfth Night is the end of Christmas, we were discussing the
Decoration Police knocking on the door: "Evening all. I have reason to
believe you might still have a Christmas card upon your mantel."

Operating, of course, under the control of Stephen Fry in his Malvolio
character.

Also next year blue Christmas lights will be forbidden. Why are cars
and lorries allowed to display blue lights? Has the world gone mad?
Don't answer that!

Ah! They'll all have to be yellow. And cross-gartered.

you aren't Maria

--
From KT24

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18

In message , polygonum
writes
On 05/01/2013 17:55, Broadback wrote:
On 05/01/2013 14:32, polygonum wrote:
On 05/01/2013 12:48, Adrian C wrote:
A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.


http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/a...C_02771_zps2f8
ce90c.jpg




Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare failures,
push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)

As Twelfth Night is the end of Christmas, we were discussing the
Decoration Police knocking on the door: "Evening all. I have reason to
believe you might still have a Christmas card upon your mantel."

Operating, of course, under the control of Stephen Fry in his Malvolio
character.

Also next year blue Christmas lights will be forbidden. Why are cars and
lorries allowed to display blue lights? Has the world gone mad? Don't
answer that!

Ah! They'll all have to be yellow. And cross-gartered.


Stop that now

twelfth night's not until tomorrow


--
geoff

In article , lid
says...

On 05/01/2013 13:58, geoff wrote:
In message , Adrian C

Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare
failures, push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Winfield, eh?

Wasn't that Woolworth's


Yup. Back in the days that branding mean't longevity :-)

Have you any idea how much it costs to engineer a product to self-
destruct just after the warranty expires?

These cheap makes can't afford it.

--
Sam

In message , Graham.
writes
On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:48:17 +0000, Adrian C
wrote:

A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/a...02771_zps2f8ce
90c.jpg

Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare
failures, push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)

Do as I do and put a series diode in the plug. Failures will be even
rarer as the bulbs will be underrun and look less bright (an advantage
IMO). Also, my cortex can just about detect the 50hz flicker which
gives them an added ethereal quality.

I still have a set of lights (12 x 20V, I believe) from around 1949.
Quite a few have failed, and I've run out of spares (although you can
still probably get them). It's been many years since they provided any
Christmas lighting, and I recall that I had to short out some of the
dead ones (silver paper in the sockets, and the dead bulb screwed in). I
did try a series diode, but as I could notice the flicker, I resorted to
running them off a variac transformer.
--
Ian

In message , Adrian C
writes
A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/turnstyler/DSC_02771_zps2f8ce90c.jpg

Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare
failures, push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)

It really is sad to see them disappear for another 49 weeks. Then the
trouble is finding them.

With one of my older set of lights, I used to wind them up on the
expired Radio Times (a special once-a-year purchase for the Christmas /
New Year fortnight). Plus a final switch on before putting them to bed.
When the time came to unwind them again, it's surprising how many times
they failed to work (usually a loose bulb). [Who knows what they get up
to when they're all packed away, and no one's looking!] When next
Christmas came around, it was interesting to have a quick comparison of
this year's and last year's Radio Times, and see how many of the TV
programmes were exactly the same as the previous Christmas.
--
Ian

In message , Broadback
writes
On 05/01/2013 14:32, polygonum wrote:
On 05/01/2013 12:48, Adrian C wrote:
A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.


http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/a..._02771_zps2f8c
e90c.jpg



Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare failures,
push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)

As Twelfth Night is the end of Christmas, we were discussing the
Decoration Police knocking on the door: "Evening all. I have reason to
believe you might still have a Christmas card upon your mantel."

Operating, of course, under the control of Stephen Fry in his Malvolio
character.

Also next year blue Christmas lights will be forbidden. Why are cars
and lorries allowed to display blue lights? Has the world gone mad?
Don't answer that!

I believe it's only flashing blue lights that are forbidden.

Can I add that those 'modern' strings of all-white fairy lights - and
even more so, the deep blue - look absolutely awful.
--
Ian

On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 20:38:34 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:

Purchased in 1980 for £2.99,

From Woolworths as well.

Can I add that those 'modern' strings of all-white fairy lights - and
even more so, the deep blue - look absolutely awful.

White is OK. Blue I don't like as my eyes just can't focus them. At least
white is a "christmas colour", blue isn't.

--
Cheers
Dave.

Yes it was. I gather that the single twisted wires on most of these is now
no longer allowed. What I found at the time was that if you asdded two extra
bulbs of the same type from an old set into the loop, you never ever had one
blow..
Brian

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"geoff" wrote in message
...
In message , Adrian C
writes
A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/turnstyler/DSC_02771_zps2f8ce90c.jpg

Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare failures,
push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)


Winfield, eh?

Wasn't that Woolworth's


--
geoff

I think Tefal have this technology in their toasters actually.

Brian

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graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them
Email:
__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________


"Sam Plusnet" wrote in message
...
In article , lid
says...

On 05/01/2013 13:58, geoff wrote:
In message , Adrian C

Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare
failures, push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Winfield, eh?

Wasn't that Woolworth's


Yup. Back in the days that branding mean't longevity :-)

Have you any idea how much it costs to engineer a product to self-
destruct just after the warranty expires?

These cheap makes can't afford it.

--
Sam

On 05/01/2013 20:38, Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Adrian C
writes
A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/turnstyler/DSC_02771_zps2f8ce90c.jpg


Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare
failures, push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)

It really is sad to see them disappear for another 49 weeks. Then the
trouble is finding them.

With one of my older set of lights, I used to wind them up on the
expired Radio Times (a special once-a-year purchase for the Christmas /
New Year fortnight). Plus a final switch on before putting them to bed.
When the time came to unwind them again, it's surprising how many times
they failed to work (usually a loose bulb). [Who knows what they get up
to when they're all packed away, and no one's looking!] When next
Christmas came around, it was interesting to have a quick comparison of
this year's and last year's Radio Times, and see how many of the TV
programmes were exactly the same as the previous Christmas.
Have you noticed how wires and cables left alone can tangle themselves?
I used to install and remove computers(the very old big ones)the cables
were laid under false flooring, when laying them I took great efforts to
do it neatly and tidy. Some years later when I came to remove them they
were a tangled mess, unexplainable!

--
Remember the early bird may catch the worm but the second mouse gets the
cheese.

In message , Broadback
writes
Have you noticed how wires and cables left alone can tangle themselves?
I used to install and remove computers(the very old big ones)the cables
were laid under false flooring, when laying them I took great efforts
to do it neatly and tidy. Some years later when I came to remove them
they were a tangled mess, unexplainable!

Not at all. That would be the electricians who had to squeeze one more
supply out of the over full dis-board to power up one more *must have*
set of drives during the summer shut down.


--
Tim Lamb

On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 19:19:14 -0000, Sam Plusnet wrote:

In article , lid
says...

On 05/01/2013 13:58, geoff wrote:
In message , Adrian C

Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare
failures, push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Winfield, eh?

Wasn't that Woolworth's


Yup. Back in the days that branding mean't longevity :-)

Have you any idea how much it costs to engineer a product to self-
destruct just after the warranty expires?

These cheap makes can't afford it.


It's just a special PIC isn't it?
--
http://www.voucherfreebies.co.uk

On 05/01/13 20:38, Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Adrian C
writes
A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/turnstyler/DSC_02771_zps2f8ce90c.jpg


Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare
failures, push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)

It really is sad to see them disappear for another 49 weeks. Then the
trouble is finding them.

With one of my older set of lights, I used to wind them up on the
expired Radio Times (a special once-a-year purchase for the Christmas /
New Year fortnight). Plus a final switch on before putting them to bed.
When the time came to unwind them again, it's surprising how many times
they failed to work (usually a loose bulb). [Who knows what they get up
to when they're all packed away, and no one's looking!] When next
Christmas came around, it was interesting to have a quick comparison of
this year's and last year's Radio Times, and see how many of the TV
programmes were exactly the same as the previous Christmas.

THis year I removed all the bulbs, tested each one with a meter, threw
away the two duds and put them all back plus tow spates also tested.

All still working.


--
Ineptocracy

(in-ep-toc-ra-cy) €“ a system of government where the least capable to
lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.

On Jan 5, 7:09*pm, geoff wrote:
twelfth night's not until tomorrow

Twelfth Night: 5th January
Twelfth Day (Epiphany): 6th January

The decorations should all be down by sunrise on the 6th Jan.

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/

On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:01:42 +0000, snot
wrote:

On 05/01/2013 17:55, Broadback wrote:

Also next year blue Christmas lights will be forbidden. Why are cars and
lorries allowed to display blue lights? Has the world gone mad? Don't
answer that!

What?
What is the source of your information?

Apparently police helicopter pilots can't tell the difference between
flashing blue lights on vehicles in the road and strings of flashing
blue lights fixed to houses. There was a news item about it the other
day. I 'thought' they were 'calling' for domestic ones to be banned,
don't remember that it said they had been banned.

On 06/01/2013 13:29, Peter Johnson wrote:
On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:01:42 +0000, snot
wrote:

On 05/01/2013 17:55, Broadback wrote:

Also next year blue Christmas lights will be forbidden. Why are cars and
lorries allowed to display blue lights? Has the world gone mad? Don't
answer that!

What?
What is the source of your information?

Apparently police helicopter pilots can't tell the difference between
flashing blue lights on vehicles in the road and strings of flashing
blue lights fixed to houses. There was a news item about it the other
day. I 'thought' they were 'calling' for domestic ones to be banned,
don't remember that it said they had been banned.

I'd be quite happy for all flashing lights to be banned. Slower, more
gentle changes are fine - but I detest the ON/OFF flashing lights.

--
Rod

On 05/01/2013 17:55, Broadback wrote:
On 05/01/2013 14:32, polygonum wrote:
On 05/01/2013 12:48, Adrian C wrote:
A quick holiday snap before placing these lights in hibernation for
another year.

http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/turnstyler/DSC_02771_zps2f8ce90c.jpg




Purchased in 1980 for £2.99, made in taiwan, used yearly, rare failures,
push fit bulbs, carefullly packed away.

Sleep tight little ones ... ;-)

As Twelfth Night is the end of Christmas, we were discussing the
Decoration Police knocking on the door: "Evening all. I have reason to
believe you might still have a Christmas card upon your mantel."

Operating, of course, under the control of Stephen Fry in his Malvolio
character.

Also next year blue Christmas lights will be forbidden. Why are cars and
lorries allowed to display blue lights? Has the world gone mad? Don't
answer that!

IIRC there has never been any restriction on vehicles showing blue
lights, only flashing ones. The police used to pull people for this, but
found that they had no grounds to, so stopped. However, I have noticed
quite a few trucks with red Christmas lights in the cab and there is a
specific prohibition against showing a red light to the front (or a
white to the rear).

SteveW