Symbols

Oct 31, 2017 3 Replies

I can remember when I could see, most instruction books for home mains operated audio gear had a little picture. A strangely short squat man holding an umbrella with very large raindrops dropping out of the sky, a stylised cat sitting on top of the piece of equipment on a table and a bonfire next to it with a red line through it.This I suppose meant do not use outdoors in the rain wallow your pet to lay over the cooling vents or expose to excessive heat. I did not get the thing about the umbrella though, unless some Far eastern equipment had some strange aversion to these devices or they were subliminally trying to sell you one.



Do books still contain such things, I suppose these days they may need one for does not contain nuts or use in the bath as well. Brian


I've often found pictograms less than helpful, but recently had a set of instructions in Spanish only, and for the first time ever appreciated the pictograms.

NT

A while ago I bought a laser printer. I'd never used one before. I read the instructions, then looked at the pictures (?) and thought, well, okay then. The A4 paper was too big to fit into the paper feed! Back to the instructions, no help there. Shirley this will take A4 paper!? Took a very good look at the paper feed tray and saw two *very* small thumb marks on each side of the tray. Pressed the marks and the tray slid back. Why this tip is not in the instructions I will never understand.

I was impressed by IKEAs picture-only instructions, as they had a couple of pictures with a massive line through them, indicating points in the assembly where it was easy to get it wrong.

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