Y adaptor for 2 bulbs in celing pendant lampholder?

[Clive Mitchell]

I don't believe that it's quite as bad as that - AFAIK the guidelines
are that ladders are not suitable for long-term access and are supposed
to be for jobs that are not anticipated to take more than about
20minutes.

Try taking a pair of steps near one of the larger contractors sites and
see what happens. It seems that the contractors with the highest amount
of deaths on their sites are "stricter" on their safety rules. This
isn't because they care. It's because they want a way to blame any
accident on the worker involved.

One in particular inadvertently admitted that the highest number of
fatal accidents involved workers new on their jobs. Or in other words
if you bring in unskilled labour off the street they are more likely to
be killed on a site. Strangely enough that's why you don't let children
play on building sites too.

It's not about proper training any more. It's just about shifting
liability away from management. We'd be safer without the HSE.

 

[Clive Mitchell]

I saw a bloke putting up a Sky dish no higher than the top of the door
lintel wearing a bash hat the other day.

I'm surprised he wasn't forced to wear a safety harness as well. The
weirdest thing is seeing the traffic light guys being forced to wear
fall arrest harnesses. If they fall and the shock absorber in the
lanyard deploys they will still hit the ground.

 

[Guy King]

The message <[email protected]>

I'm surprised he wasn't forced to wear a safety harness as well.

He was - but it wasn't clipped to anything as there wasn't anything to
which to clip it.

 

[David Lee]

Clive Mitchell wrote...

It's not about proper training any more. It's just about shifting
liability away from management. We'd be safer without the HSE.

Not sure I agree with that. Following a row on rec.arts.theatre.stagecraft
a couple of years ago about an alleged CO2 incident, I spoke several times
with the HSE guy responsible for the entertainment industry and I was very
impressed with his attitudes regarding safety of smoke and dry-ice effects.

It may be what you are saying, but the problem is with managers shifting
blame and HSE is the best safety police force we are likely to get - without
them I doubt that those irresponsible managers would even bother about
blame - let alone try to shift it!

David

 

[Lobster]

It's like the HSE said "Ooh! Lots of people fall at work so lets ban
ladders." Well lots of people get knocked down by cars so lets ban them
too. It's the same logic.

Shh, for Chrissakes!

David

 

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember [email protected] saying something
like:

The worst film I ever showed we got 2 of the 12 reels round the wrong
way - but it was so bad no-one even noticed!

"Eraserhead", perchance?

 

[Chris J Dixon]

I'm fairly sure mine said "automatic" on it - there was apparently a way of
opening the sides that caused the bread to flip over when you closed them
again ;-)

Absolutely. As the side is hinged down, a little arm fastened to
it nudges the bottom of the slice from behind, whereupon it
slides down the open side, untoasted side uppermost, ready to be
toasted.

Elegant simplicity.

Chris

 

[Clive Mitchell]

Absolutely. As the side is hinged down, a little arm fastened to it
nudges the bottom of the slice from behind, whereupon it slides down
the open side, untoasted side uppermost, ready to be toasted.

I had a toaster incident recently. It was at Glasgow's Christmas light
switch-on and I was in our control cabin where the control computer for
all the lights is. I'd decided that the control system should be
plugged into the main power DB for the lights so that it was independent
from the cabin power in case we had some unlikely incident that tripped
the RCD and killed the controller.

This turned out to be a good move. A few minutes before the countdown I
decided to abuse the toaster by making a cheese and ham toastie in it in
a manner which involved jamming the sandwich into a single slot with
force. This had worked every time I had tried it before, but on this
instance, while the cabin was full of event management, I managed to
make bread to element contact and trip the RCD plunging the cabin into
darkness.

Fortunately it was easy enough to pop outside and reset the RCD in the
mains pillar, and thanks to foresight the computer was still happily
running ready for the switch-on without any heart-in-mouth reboot time.


Getting the untoasted cheese and ham toastie out of the toaster was a
very messy affair.

 

[Clive Mitchell]

Digital projection due to go in next month, but I can't see it
happening by then, there's a lot of preparatory work to be done, and we
will still be running film as well for some time to come.

Heard that some of the digital projection systems use uncompressed video
stored on huge drives. Makes sense from a quality perspective I
suppose.

 

[David Lee]

Clive Mitchell wrote...

This turned out to be a good move. A few minutes before the countdown I
decided to abuse the toaster by making a cheese and ham toastie in it in a
manner which involved jamming the sandwich into a single slot with force.
This had worked every time I had tried it before, but on this instance,
while the cabin was full of event management, I managed to make bread to
element contact and trip the RCD plunging the cabin into darkness.

I thought that anybody who had ever been an impoverished student knew that
bread should always be inserted with the green side to earth! ;-)

David

 

[Andrew Gabriel]

I just discovered that in Norway they teach electronics at primary
school, including soldering!

Well, I had picked up my father's soldering iron by that age,
having got an interest in electronics probably from around
age 7 or 8.

When I got to O-level physics, I recall being rather disappointed
to find that we missed out on electronics and domestic wiring which
I would have sailed through, whilst those in the bottom set who did
CSE rather than O-level did have these in their course.

 

[Andrew Gabriel]

I'm surprised he wasn't forced to wear a safety harness as well. The
weirdest thing is seeing the traffic light guys being forced to wear
fall arrest harnesses. If they fall and the shock absorber in the
lanyard deploys they will still hit the ground.

I saw one only yesterday. He'd used his harness to tie the top
of the step ladder to the pole, because there was no ground surface
around it which was horizontal enough to stand the ladder on with
more than 2 of its feet on the ground ;-)

 

[Owain]

I had a toaster incident recently. It was at Glasgow's Christmas light
switch-on ... A few minutes before the countdown I
decided to abuse the toaster by making a cheese and ham toastie in it in
a manner which involved jamming the sandwich into a single slot with
force. ... Getting the untoasted cheese and ham toastie out of the
toaster was a very messy affair.

No handy spotlight and frying pan on this event?

Owain

 

[Clive Mitchell]

The audio is usually uncompressed, but not the picture. It can be
either MPEG or motion JPEG. The latter stores every frame, but each
frame is still compressed. The system going in at Croydon comes with
750GB as standard, which I think can store something like five hours.
It can be expanded up to an additional 750GB, in 250GB increments. Not
that big really; in my main job, not cinema related, we have some LaCie
thernet attached disk units, one rack unit high, and they hold 2TB
each. You would need a lot more than that to store the picture in
uncompressed form.

So what sort of resolution are the digital films projected at?

 

[Clive Mitchell]

No handy spotlight and frying pan on this event?

Hey, that was a proper wok. Sized to fit the parcan properly.

http://www.emanator.demon.co.uk/stirfry.jpg

 

[Clive Mitchell]

Well, I had picked up my father's soldering iron by that age, having
got an interest in electronics probably from around age 7 or 8.

Did you pick it up by the right end?

When I got to O-level physics, I recall being rather disappointed to
find that we missed out on electronics and domestic wiring which I
would have sailed through, whilst those in the bottom set who did CSE
rather than O-level did have these in their course.

They did?

I had to wait until I reached 16 then went and did it for real. Not
domestic wiring though, I ended up serving my apprenticeship with an
electrical engineering company doing construction and steelworks. Much
better than school!

 

[Clive Mitchell]

In message <[email protected]>,

No. A PhD in an irrelevant field. Working on electrics? You need
a PhD in Media Studies. Working as a journalist? You need a PhD in
architecture.

So true. I remember being totally blanked for a maintenance job at a
local Alcan plant. They specifically wanted students with an HND (any
HND) to work on their machinery. Not a real electrician with tons of
electronics, panel building and maintenance experience.

Then they shut down. Maybe they couldn't keep the machines running.

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

So true. I remember being totally blanked for a maintenance job at a
local Alcan plant. They specifically wanted students with an HND (any
HND) to work on their machinery. Not a real electrician with tons of
electronics, panel building and maintenance experience.

Then they shut down. Maybe they couldn't keep the machines running.

I can gert em that price online..

BUT its accepatble for now. I am going to leave it. If the new cartridge
when this one runs out doesn't fix it, its by by my old and faithful
laserjet..and probably hello color one..

 

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember [email protected] saying something
like:

Getting a nice tidy neat title together would be asking too much of
this one. I've no idea what it was called, but I'm sure the title would
have been long, meandering, pointless, of no consequence at all, and in
French.

The reason I asked was that, on viewing Eraserhead, I was of the opinion
that someone had got the reels mixed up somewhere.

 

[Clive Mitchell]

In message <[email protected]>,

Quick question - do these poor sods on the top of the traffic
lights have their own personal set of kit (harnesses, personal-sized
shock absorbers, anchors, etc) or do they just keep one harness in the
van, stretched to the max so everyone can get into it and never
adjusted to fit any one? Stupid question, really.

Most likely each person has their own harness. I have mine my
colleagues have theirs. The only time one is shared is if someone
visits a job and unexpectedly needs one.

In construction you don't get much choice on the shock absorber. It
does appear to be one size fits all.

Now scaffolders.... Do they ever clip on to anything? Saw one recently
with the harness over his shoulders but his legs not through the loops.
Just dangling behind him.