[Elecraft] Real 2" x 4" Lumber

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

And with that, let's close this thread. Its a bit too far OT.

Must be a slow HF propagation day! ;-)

73

Eric
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On 8/12/2016 11:42 AM, Phil Wheeler wrote:
> A fun retrospective, Jim -- except for the corn part!
>
> Phil W7OX
>
> On 8/11/16 10:29 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
>> Indeed the finished dimension of lumber HAS changed. Renovating the wood 
>> frame home I owned in Chicago, built around the turn of the century, after 
>> the Great Chicago Fire, I found REAL 2" x 4" and 2" x 6" lumber.
>>
>> I also removed at least 100 ft of gas pipe used for lighting. When first 
>> wired for electricity, wiring was run through those pipes and light fixtures 
>> replaced the gas lights. Obviously, they were first disconnected from the gas 
>> line, which was still used for heat. :)
>>
>> Another thing that's changed is the sweet corn that we can buy in the market 
>> -- it's now much sweeter with little real corn taste. As long as I've been 
>> eating it, corn was always hybridized for taste, but it always tasted like 
>> corn. What we get now is hybridized and genetically engineered stuff that 
>> resists the chemicals used to kill weeds.  It  looks like corn, but tastes 
>> like a sugar bowl.  Small farmers used to harvest their own seeds to plant 
>> next year's crop, and to grow corn that tasted the way they and their 
>> customers wanted. But when that chemical resistant stuff was invented 
>> something like 10 years ago, Monsanto, the big seed company that invented it, 
>> sued those farmers, claiming that some of their patented stuff had 
>> cross-fertilized those corn plants, and within a few years, that phony corn 
>> is all we can buy. I used to buy a half dozen ears, steam them, and eat them 
>> for lunch. I haven't been able to do that for years.
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC
>>
>>  On Thu,8/11/2016 9:17 AM, Charlie T, K3ICH wrote:
>>> Bad analogy.  The 2 X 4 inch measurement of a piece of construction lumber
>>> is before planning, or rough cut lumber.  The finished dimension is more
>>> like 3½ X 1½ which hasn't changed.
>
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