Recent content by sharps4590

As per NEC if electric lines and water lines are in the same ditch there is to be 2 ft. of separation. I'm not a double E but was an electrician for 45 years and passed my Master's Test in 1981. I am assuming that the separation requires enough distance that such a fault to a water line should...

When I was a kid it was always Rolla School of Mines. As I grew up a mere 40 miles from where I now live that's what it was known as all over this part of the country. However, I believe its official name was 'Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy". I don't know when it became part of the...

Thank you. I am not very techy.

As a retired electrician I sure saw a lot of that stuff! Evidently, regrettably about all of it ended up in the trash. Back in the early 1960's my Dad took a correspondence course from the old National Radio Institute titled "Small Appliance Repair and Electric Wiring". Part of the course was...

Who is the greater talent, a Bach, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Mendelsshon or Chet Atkins, Christopher Parkening, Joe Pass or perhaps Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Tex Benneke or Ziggy Elman? Then there's Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, George and Ira Gershwin as well as Rodgers & Hammerstein, Jerome Kern...

They say the same thing about mushroom hunters...

Gotta love those twin fiddles and pre-pedal steel guitar. My kind of guitar pickin' too. I still play that Waylon Jennings song, along with a few others. We played a lot of ol' Waylon. You can't play Waylon without a phase shifter and that's the only effect I have ever used. We never saw...

Wow...you guys think on another level from me. My old boss in Wyoming had a phrase that covered a multitude of sin, "it's all a matter of taste and there is no accounting for taste". I'm pretty simple, if I feel as if I'm being assaulted by the music, it's off the play list. I like hot licks...

Our band director was a drummer in the Navy during WWII so our high school stage band played a lot of big band swing. Obviously more simple arrangements. The 571st ANG band played the originals and I will freely admit I was often over my head. However, when you play with good musicians you...

It would have to be Duke Ellington and "Take the 'A' Train". I played trombone in the 571st Mo. Ang Band and loved this. NOT EASY!!!! Duke and "Satin Doll" run a close second.

Favorite song? That's like asking which is my favorite son, my favorite rifle, my favorite guitar or my favorite old car. It's the one I'm shooting, playing or driving at the moment. I ain't pickin' a son. Whatever it is it likely comes from the Big Band era, the 1950's or 60's R&R scene, (I...

It feels old. Howsomever, my mind does keep writing checks my body can't cash!

73 year old retired electrician/contractor, married to the same wonderful woman for 47 years. "The Big Three" interests are old guns, guitars and British sports cars. Been playing guitar for 64 years, own 3 MG's and one Morris Minor 1000 and too many old domestic and German firearms to...

I ended up here looking for an answer to a question and am extremely grateful for the prompt and informative answer. I'm neither student, chemist, physicist nor engineer. My career consisted of 45 years as an electrician, 35 of those as an electrical contractor. Perhaps ironic to the web site...