Comments on: New and Novel Devices (Sep, 1914) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/03/07/new-and-novel-devices/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:12:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Arglebarglefarglegleep http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/03/07/new-and-novel-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-1080092 Arglebarglefarglegleep Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:03:11 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=9125#comment-1080092 I have a folding rule my grandfather left me. It'd damn useful as it gives exact lengths and you don't have to fudge for slack in the tape. Why fuse & circuit breaker panels to this day don't have lights is a mystery to me. They put them in refrigerators, they put them under car hoods, hell they have portable lights now. But not a damned light anywhere in a panel. You'd think it'd be obvious that the one place you'd need light is a circuit breaker panel. I have a folding rule my grandfather left me. It’d damn useful as it gives exact lengths and you don’t have to fudge for slack in the tape. Why fuse & circuit breaker panels to this day don’t have lights is a mystery to me. They put them in refrigerators, they put them under car hoods, hell they have portable lights now. But not a damned light anywhere in a panel. You’d think it’d be obvious that the one place you’d need light is a circuit breaker panel.

]]> By: StanFlouride http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/03/07/new-and-novel-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-1076250 StanFlouride Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:53:24 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=9125#comment-1076250 Though folding rules have largely fallen out of fashion (they're available but only by special order) there are several things here that I sell in my hardware store that are largely unchanged in 98 years. Though folding rules have largely fallen out of fashion (they’re available but only by special order) there are several things here that I sell in my hardware store that are largely unchanged in 98 years.

]]> By: KD5ZS http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/03/07/new-and-novel-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-1076223 KD5ZS Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:03:52 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=9125#comment-1076223 1914? No wonder they had not heard of bayonet connectors. 1914? No wonder they had not heard of bayonet connectors.

]]> By: rick http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/03/07/new-and-novel-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-1076216 rick Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:28:53 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=9125#comment-1076216 OWWW!! I just found that blown fuse. Rick OWWW!! I just found that blown fuse.

Rick

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