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Subj: Re: Iron in a Light Fitting!
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From: G4YUU@GB7MAX.#28.GBR.EU
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[ 27/07/2002 10:37z #:7571 @:G4YUU QRA:IO92CN ] .
" Digital TV/Radio, Progression from Invention "
G4WYW wrote with great skill:-
> This reminded me of when I was young and my Grandmother would do
> her ironing with a 2 pin plug fitted to the electric iron lead
> which, in turn, she plugged into a Bayonet Adaptor that plugged
> into an overhead light fitting!
Hi Mel
When not ironing the lamp socket was used to plug in the radio when
accumulators were superseded for AC connection as of course the old
houses had no Power-Points as we know them today. In the two way
bayonet lamp sockets was in fact a switch for the extension other
than the main light bulb.....
The lighting flex was also quite dangerous just having a cotton woven
cover over the rubber power cable but I never saw one go up in flames
Keeping my kitchen door open as I type is an old type cast-iron flat
iron that one used to heat on the gas stove or fireplace hob. We used
to "Spit" on the iron to see if it was too hot to use...I have the
flat iron for 50 years..
I wonder if it is worth anything other than scrap ;-)
Cheers
73, John, G4YUU @ GB7MAX
10:29 on 27 July 2002
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