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Did he use coloured keys on the piano?....amazing!
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Did he use coloured keys on the piano?....amazing!
he has 2 sets of braille on the keys. in tune... out of tune. unfortunately he's not got the hang of braille.Did he use coloured keys on the piano?....amazing!
An old guy once told me that the first electricians were joinersAngle gauge, steel rule, saw, file, knife. Apply tools to trunking in the manner prescribed by the art and craft, and a perfect joint results. There's no magic shortcut - electrical installation work is a craft and it requires skill and practice. A joiner can make joints in wood of arbitrary angles that fit together exactly and look smart; an electrician should be able to do the same with electrical materials. Unfotunately, the very kind of work that uses PVC mini trunking is not the kind to draw the attention of the most skilled craftsmen, so one doesn't see precision work in mini around the place.
Wind back the clock 100 years and you would see electricians making complex joints in wooden casing with flyovers, double mitres etc. That wasn't something you could learn from a book, and was nigh impossible for the DIYer. When I look back at my first few years' steel trunking work it's got some rough edges (not literally!). It has taken 20 years to get good at it and now I don't do much on the tools and avoid first fix like the plague, I'm losing it again for want of practice.
If it's any consolation, when my mentor asked me to tube up an area in 20mm BE steel con while he was in hospital, with funny angles in roof trusses, he made sure there was just enough tube. I made so many misbends that I secretly bought another bundle of conduit and cut up and took away most of the errors!
Or as one I found in the past - tucked under the gap in the skirting board between the carpet gripperWhy waste time with trunking just use cable clips along the top of the skirting board......
There's an art to that, you just need to be able to hold the bolster at the right angle.Or as one I found in the past - tucked under the gap in the skirting board between the carpet gripper
The house I grew up in had coax under all of the carpet.Or as one I found in the past - tucked under the gap in the skirting board between the carpet gripper
The house I grew up in had coax under all of the carpet.
The funny thing is, whenever I qualified my parents decided to put down wooden floors and tilesAnd a good majority were accompanied by alarm cables .
Carpet, thats a luxury we had cold hard lino.............The house I grew up in had coax under all of the carpet.
Cheap skate, I use a 3D modelling laser to make an image of the room, I then transfer it to my CNC program and create a detailed form, I then use my CNC Plasma cutter to cut the trunking,I must say the lack of professionalism in approaching one of the premium wiring methods involving mini trunking has left me aghast at how standards have fallen. I always take my laser cutter on such jobs to ensure that while no-one gives a flying, I can walk away with my head held high.
Mantech Machinery - Desktop Laser Engraver and Laser Cutter - http://www.mantechmachinery.co.uk/laser-cutting-machines/desktop-laser-engraver-and-laser-cutter
No special tools required, just use your teeth!Another lovely bit of trunking, jobs a goodun.View attachment 41292
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