[GreenKeys] news wire photos and other silliness

[Jeffrey Angus]

On 6/16/2011 5:51 PM, Lee Mushel wrote:
> I happen to have two of the "old" fax machines sitting
> on a shelf in my shed.
A buddy of mine, and I bought 4-5 of them from J J Glass in Los
Angeles in the mid '70s. Using 2 meter AM, we sent several
copies of Don Martin cartoons back and forth. Yeah, it was a real
hoot watching the smoke curl up from the paper as it was doing
it's "receive" routine.
> I went to a local club and asked if someone would be
> willing to help me with this "experiment."   I was
> turned down because "there is no need for such a thing"
> and because they felt my ideas were technically
> "insufficient."
Well yes, that and "Not invented here." I've run into that a lot.
> I was looking for three quarter inch copper sweat fittings
> and needed two elbows and two couplings.  She then asked
> if I wanted "PVC or Iron Pipe."
While doing an upgrade to some power supply cabling, we sub-
stituted #12 AWG for the #16 that was originally in place. To make
it work, of course, we clipped a few strands at the ends to fit the
wire into the solder cups on the connector. After we told the
vendor about the change, a few days later we were asked, "What
size #12 wire are you using? Our #12 won't fit."

Jeff