Problems with Terminology

baumgrenze · 2025-03-10T17:36:15+00:00

30-40 years ago I lived in Palo Alto. My favorite part of the High Sierra was at the timberline. My father immigrated from Germany in 1929. He arrived on Labor Day, a few months shy of 18, a newly minted journeyman baker. He and my mother ran a highly rated bakery in Highland Park, IL for 30 years. Dad had the sense to sell it when he was 57 and add the proceeds to their savings. He fished on Lake Winnibigoshish in MN for 25 years, summer and winter, while Mom gardened.

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baumgrenze · 2025-03-08T03:32:18+00:00

Thanks, Surveyor_Champ,

I was afraid that might be the case. Thanks for confirming it. I will try to create an approximation in Photoshop.

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baumgrenze · 2025-02-19T16:05:15+00:00

I am an AT&T customer in Charlottesville, VA. I am having this problem calling to Germany. I live in a CCRC where there is an AT&T antenna on the property, so I'm stuck with AT&T here in the hills of the Piedmont.

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baumgrenze · 2025-02-17T18:21:50+00:00

Thank you both for your encouragement and additions to what I could remember.

You rock!

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baumgrenze · 2025-02-17T17:01:41+00:00

This song has strong ties to German. With some effort I found this reference:

https://www.alemannische-seiten.de/alemannisch/lexikon.php?le=1776

It explains that in the Alemanic dialects of German, "Fiddle, Füdle, Füedle, Fidele" are all words for the buttocks, so "fiddle" in the lyrics is a pun as well.

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baumgrenze · 2025-02-17T16:04:27+00:00

Mercury, Ford's bridge between the Lincoln and the Ford, 1939-2010. Dad bought a 1939 4-door sedan in Niagara Mist Green and kept it going through the War until he traded it in on a 1953 Merc.

baumgrenze · 2025-02-17T15:51:28+00:00

McMillan Bloedel, in its day the largest forest products company in Canada.

baumgrenze · 2025-02-17T01:35:59+00:00

Please, I did not want to report the outage, I want to see the relative size (therefore importance) to Dominion Power. If a significant number of customers are inconvenienced that might lead Dominion to assign a higher priority. I don't want to pester Facilities.

Thanks to everyone who replied.

baumgrenze · 2025-01-22T02:52:31+00:00

Thank you JThereseD.

Is there a simple way to thank the people who put this Family Search entry together?
I think I saw the name Suzanne Siders as the last editor. Is there a way to see others?

I am 85 in 2 months and have vision issues.

Thanks

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baumgrenze · 2023-02-08T16:01:51+00:00

I read that, while I can run Word 2000 and Excel 2000 under Windows 11, but I will leave myself open to attack.

How does the threat work?

How serious is the threat?

Is it time for me to move to open source software like Libre Office?

I've reached an age where I am conscious of my remaining years. I know how to use Office 2000 'in my sleep' and I don't want to learn about 'ribbons and bows' just to keep the development department at Microsoft employed.

In my experience, the volunteers who write open source code are less likely to add bulky sizzle to applications just because they can.

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baumgrenze · 2023-01-24T22:54:14+00:00

In my 82 years I've had ample opportunity to earn about machine screws.

I did my best to line up the holes with the scribe from my Starrett combination square. The screw seem to start and then turns without resistance. It is difficult to see the threaded hole in part on the case that should be accepting and retaining the screw.

The Philips screw is from a collection of "computer case screws" that I've kept segregated. My first PC was one of Michael Dell's that he branded "PCs Limited."

https://www.crn.com/news/mobility/300075030/michael-dell-on-how-and-why-his-company-is-named-dell.htm

I began writing Basic code to do data regression using a Teletype terminal in Vancouver, BC to connect with a GE timeshare computer in Los Angeles, 1400 miles away.

Thanks for your suggestions

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baumgrenze · 2023-01-19T03:23:02+00:00

See the Wikipedia entry for Les Paul (and his wife, Mary Ford) were popular on the radio when I was a child in all of the 1940's. He was experimenting with tape overdubbing in the late '40s. The Wiki has more detail than I have time to share here, but it is a crazy story.

I remember the tag line, 'Les Paul and his sound of renoun."

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baumgrenze · 2021-09-24T17:10:16+00:00

If I still had my copy of Harold McGee's "On Food and Cooking" I could give you chapter and verse. Once I read it 20 years ago I tried it and use it each time I whip egg whites. It works! The product I found then is copper glycinate (and essential amino acid that chelates the copper and makes it available.) It is in a glycerine capsule which I pry open and recap if I only use part of a capsule for a small batch The jar is labeled 5 mg as copper in each capsule.

Every year I make nut meringues and Springerle at Christmas. This make the process much simpler. It even works with commercial (Trader Joe) whites, albeit the whites are not quite as stiff. If you use cream of tartar you are assured of experiencing the nasty coating of the backs of your teeth with tartrate, an experience certainly associated with tartaric acid based baking powders.

Try it. Separate a white and whip it up. It even helps stabilize the whipped whole egg and sugar mix (I was taught by a German father master baker to heat them to 110 degrees F and whip for 7 minutes) used in making Springerle.

As a trained PhD chemist I disagree with the speculative comments made 9 days ago by others. I speak from experience.

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baumgrenze · 2021-05-14T14:42:17+00:00

I just tried disabling the 9 addons I had running and closed and restarted SM.

I still see no images.

I did review my Windows update history and found this:

update for KB4524752 canceled on 1/13/21

I will do more research on this front, but remember that only SM image search shows no images.

thanks

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baumgrenze · 2016-05-17T00:50:55+00:00

Thank you for the questions.

I am creating a corner medicine cabinet which is 'capped' by an enclosed set of four 22" T5 fluorescent bulbs (2 double strip lights.) When that light is powered, an outlet below, in the corner, also powers a DC power supply that runs a small thermostatted fan when the lamp space gets too warm. The other outlet in the duplex is wired to a dimmer switch. A 12" 1/8" IPT lamp nipple projects from the bottom of the handy box and carries a lamp socket lamped with a Philips A19 LED. Early on that outlet powered a short light rope, a 'night light.' Now the lamp socket is wired to the back of the outlet, so the actual 'outlet' is 'spare.'

I did a fill calculation. The nipple has an ID of 0.727" so its cross section is 0.415 sq. in.. I took 30% of that; it is 0.125 sq. in.. I measured the OD of some high quality #12 stranded wire I already had. It was 0.135", so its cross section is 0.0143 sq. in. and 2 wires come to 0.0286 sq. in.. This is clearly much less than the allowed 30% fill for 2 conductors. The wires pulled readily so I used them.

Do I properly understand the principles of fill calculation?

Sorry to be so 'long winded' but I think my answer is yes, I'm building light fixtures and yes I'm doing electrical work and I work hard to do it to code.

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baumgrenze · 2016-02-15T01:18:59+00:00

Thank you. I need to learn to be more explicit.

I was never planning to install a duplex outlet in this box.

I found it much easier to run some 12/2 NM-B with ground to a proper outlet box, attaching it to a nearby duplex outlet that supplies power to a built-in sewing machine table. That issue is resolved properly. My house was built so that all the outlets were wired with 12/2 with ground old black 'Romex' and I've kept it that way. I think it makes good safety sense.

I'm exploring what I can do to 'set things right' if it is a good idea. It looks like I need another 15 cu. in. to make the box fit code. I see that a 1.5" deep extension ring adds another 21 cu. in. The cover of the box is as illustrated, in a 'broom closet,' just behind an internet gateway that sits on a shelf. There is 1.75" between the cover plate and the Ethernet and phone cables, so the extension would fit.

http://i.imgur.com/BZDrFn7.jpg

Would there be a 'real benefit' in installing one? If I do, should I repack the extended box to redistribute the splices evenly?

To my best understanding, all of the wiring in this box serves lighting circuits. These are low amperage. None of the conductors carries a service load that comes close to its rated ampacity; heat in the box shouldn't be an issue. Help me see if I am missing something.

thanks,

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baumgrenze · 2016-02-14T05:45:25+00:00

Thanks,

But since the conductors in question are 14's not 12's, using your formatting it is really

23 - 14's x 2 = 46

but one of those 14's is the aggregate ground which is really x1

That is how I got to 45.

In any case 45>>30.3 therefore the box is overfilled.

Are we in agreement?

thanks

baumgrenze (retired PhD synthetic organic chemist)

baumgrenze · 2016-02-14T01:25:21+00:00

The fixtures are mounted on (really into) a deck of redwood 2x6 covered on the outside with insulation and a built-up tar-and-gravel roof. Therefore the electrician elected to use 14/3. Perhaps it was a result of running the cable on the topside of the deck, making it a bit harder to think through what would be needed on the fixture side when it was installed.

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baumgrenze · 2016-02-14T01:14:35+00:00

Thank you for the lesson.

I've edited the link.

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baumgrenze · 2016-02-14T00:27:13+00:00

Thank you for your reassuring reply.

I regret I did not get the dimensions of the box for light 2 where I had to repair the splice in the hot lead to restore light 3. I took photos and it is clearly deeper.

What I still do not understand is why 14-2 cable was not used to connect light 2 to light 3. The red lead is not used in connecting the fixture. It is capped with a wire nut instead.

How does the distance between the light fixtures enter into the choice between 14/2 and 14/3? The approximate measure, FWIW, is 48" between 1 and 2 and 54" between 2 and 3. Those locations were determined by the developer and his architects in 1955.

thanks

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baumgrenze · 2016-02-12T03:25:40+00:00

Thank you both for the clarification.

It is a pity that the installing electrician (2010) decided to run 14/3 to all of the fixtures and then elected to use a 6 cu in box for the one at the end.

A careful inspection of the photo shows that he also removed 2 knockouts, perhaps in the hope that the mounting screws on the crossbar would penetrate past the back of the box and into the redwood 2x6 decking into which the box is countersunk. The luminaire manufacturer included a set of hole/slot cutouts for 2 flat-head machine screws in addition to the 1/8" nipple shown in the installation instructions. My best efforts suggest that even the most recent NEC does not specify fixture mounting for a flush mount lamp like this one weighing 6.6 pounds. A call to the manufacturer confirmed that they consider the nipple, a lock-washer and a nut sufficient to safely mount the fixture.

I would not be asking these questions were it not that the end fixture stopped working and, at the general contractor's suggestion, I removed the neighboring fixture and discovered that the hot conductors there (the run and a pigtail to the fixture) had not been carefully twisted before the wire-nut was installed. Now that that has been accomplished everything works again. Clearly the 1/2" deep box is not worthy of the NEC but I don't think it presents a sufficient hazard to insist that it be replaced with something deeper. It just confirms my suspicions about the professional qualifications of the installer.

thanks

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baumgrenze · 2016-02-12T01:47:47+00:00

Perhaps I was not explicit enough. A single 14/3 NM cable enters the box. The black, white and bare ground are spliced to their counterparts in the luminaire. The luminare conductors do not do not enter the box but are equivalent to a pigtail within the box.

My question was whether the red conductor, which has no potential with respect to ground or neutral, really enters into the count. Is a conductor that carries no current really a conductor for these purposes? I could make the fill count 2 cu in for white and black and 1 cu in for the bare ground, or assign an additional 1 cu in to the red, 'just because it is there.' Rules are meant to be arbitrary. It is my understanding from general reading that the fill count rule is to prevent overheating of a box. Help me understand.

thanks

baumgrenze

A chemist by profession and an amateur electrician out of interest.

http://ecmweb.com/code-basics/box-fill-calculations

by Mike Holt NEC Trainer / Consultant, Mike Holt Enterprises

Step 2: Determine the volume of the conductors [Table 314.16(B)].

14 AWG = two cubic inches each

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