6 way, eh.
My parents had (still have) a 4-way, with the ways labelled (be me, in dymo tape)
I found out that "socket in Lounge" was on fuse 3 not 2 "the hard way"!
Owain
With some regret, I lobbed my[1] HP7475 in a skip a few months back after having had it sat in a cupboard unused for getting on for 15 years....
[1] Bought at auction with three others for £65 a piece IIRC
Aww... Im sure they would make excellent small scale CNC machines/ engravers when fitted with a dremel...
Possibly - they had quite substantial stepper motors for the platten and turret axis. Not sure if the pen up/down mechanism would cope with a dremel without serious modification though.
(brings back memories from years ago where I managed to annoy a whole lab by running a DEC rebadged 7475 plotting radar flight path data from a spreadsheet that was part of the old DOS "Smart" package. It did not quite have the intelligence in the spreadsheet to work out that if you wanted a line from point A to B and then a line from B to C that it could do the next line without picking up the pen and putting it down again. Hence each of 8000 short lines that made up the plot would be drawn with a pen up and down between *every* segment. Sounded like a demented woodpecker hammering away non stop for a couple of hours!)
I remember writing a bit of HP-IB code in BBC Basic for exactly that problem - it pretended to be a plotter, accepted the command stream and rewrote it to avoid Pen up, Pen down without a move in between. Forward it to the plotter and away you go..
That was a simple but extremely popular bit of code.. not as nice as the one that took the BBC micro 'VDU' command stream (which always used a virtual resolution of 1280x1024 regardless of screen mode) and sent it as PCL to a Laserjet - much higher resolution than the usual screendumps, and faster too. Also a fun project, basically building up a framebuffer in RAM then sending it out as a PCL compressed raster file to fill an A4 page. I don't think I've ever had a project with such clear requirements since :-(
Betcha it would cope with a flexi-drive attachment though!
4 way, you were spoilt as a child.
It was a lot worse in Yorkshire. I had a 2 way when I was a child.
Looksheree.....
That's mopre like what I was thinking about.
Or a cutter head so you can do your own signwriting...
The message from "ARWadworth" contains these words:
(in Yorkshire as it happens) 30 years ago there was only a 3 way fuse box. One ring circuit, one cooker point and the lights.
Some time later I found that the visible earth wire from the fuse box actually terminated on a rusty nail loosely pushed into a joint in the wall behind a cupboard. Being rather worried by this I bought a pukka earth rod and banged that through the kitchen floor as a replacement for the rusty nail.
Some further time later I found that there was also an earth wire link back to the company fuse block but I have never got round to disconnecting the earth road although from time to time I wonder whether it is doing any good at all. Should I disconnect the earth rod?
You may as well leave it alone. It won't do any harm and it might do a tiny little bit of good.
The message from Andy Wade contains these words:
It can stay then at least until I decide to put some insulation and screed on top of the existing floor. Even then it could stay but it would look a bit odd with the insulated earth wire disappearing into the concrete. I don't suppose for a moment I would be able to pull it up by
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