The old string of lights used 120v 4 watt incandescent bulbs were wired in parallel. One bulb goes out and the rest still works. They could do that today with a low voltage high amp power supplies too. It would add about 20 bucks to the cost. But I guess why make them to last and easy to fix? That is bad for business.
I remember those from growing up, and the metal reflectors that you put on the bulb before you screwed it into the socket. We had both the stamped tin and foil variety as well as the lead tinsel.The old string of lights used 120v 4 watt incandescent bulbs were wired in parallel. One bulb goes out and the rest still works. They could do that today with a low voltage high amp power supplies too. It would add about 20 bucks to the cost. But I guess why make them to last and easy to fix? That is bad for business.
The local hardware store has the yellow LED version in stock, good to know they actually work.
I remember those from growing up, and the metal reflectors that you put on the bulb before you screwed it into the socket. We had both the stamped tin and foil variety as well as the lead tinsel.
I don't think any of it had an approval rating.
Exactly, we had a ton of fun with Lawn Darts back in the day and no one ever got hurt.
Exactly, we had a ton of fun with Lawn Darts back in the day and no one ever got hurt.
When the family completed the estate sale of my grandfathers place (built around 1896), part of what was sold were some chandliers. What was unique was that half of the lights were electric bulbs, the other half of the lights were natural gas. It gave me a chill up my spine just thinking of all the bad things that could have gone wrong.
We used to make our own arrows (as in bow and arrows). I forgot what the fins were made from (goose feathers maybe) that we glued on. And to cut and trim them we would turn the arrow with two braces on each end. And one end had a heating wire (gee where can we find heating wire
) in the shape of the fin you wanted. And it would cut each fin perfectly clean. I just googled this and they are called a fletching burner.
Well ..... Same setup. About 20 people would hop on the back, and the horses would pull you around to the different tree areas. Along the way they'd pickup anyone along the trails with trees. Hot chocolate was back up at the area you got on. The trees were reasonable prices. I lived in Barrie, or just outsid really in a place called Midhurst. There was the 'old Barrie road' that we could take to Orillia. IIRC it was on one of those sideroads.
Especially in this case because they had their own gas well. It ran until about the 1980's or so. Tried to re-bore the well and re-sleeve but the sand slurry filled in the well below the line and they had to convert to public natural gas. Chandliers were taken down well before that, I'm thinking around late 1930's. They even used a Westinghouse natural gas to electric generator for the farm. An old mansion that was owned by some of the old Oil City oil barons. I think they were the Kahl family all engineers. Have an old glass plate converted to digital what shows the family in front of the house but too big to be uploaded.
