Random questions about electrical things....

[mopar 3 B]

You can now buy small sachets of smoke for those minor deviations in circuitry failure.
Specially designed for the home handyman market.

A more pressing question is directed at @Kern Dog - why is it that since the advent of the portable nail-gun, do builders/carpenters (hammer jockeys) see fit to increase the number of nails shot into a job by 10 fold???? Has the game gotten so easy now, that the constant banging and metallization of timber construction, that any mug can be a builder? Or is that accuracy has fallen off as generations of 'tradesmen' have progressed through the evolutionary cycle?

Number and quantity of metal used would go down greatly if the employee was buying his own supplies. Also some of this may be due to todays building standards. Things have changed over the years. But there is still plenty of waste out there.

 

[Kern Dog]

You can now buy small sachets of smoke for those minor deviations in circuitry failure.
Specially designed for the home handyman market.

A more pressing question is directed at @Kern Dog - why is it that since the advent of the portable nail-gun, do builders/carpenters (hammer jockeys) see fit to increase the number of nails shot into a job by 10 fold???? Has the game gotten so easy now, that the constant banging and metallization of timber construction, that any mug can be a builder? Or is that accuracy has fallen off as generations of 'tradesmen' have progressed through the evolutionary cycle?

Excellent question.
When nail guns first became commonplace, I used to say that in the hands of a competent worker, it is an asset. For the rest, it allows them to do bad work faster.
Yeah, it is so easy to fire off 5 nails when 2 used to be all that was needed.

 

[kiwigtx]

Excellent question.
When nail guns first became commonplace, I used to say that in the hands of a competent worker, it is an asset. For the rest, it allows them to do bad work faster.
Yeah, it is so easy to fire off 5 nails when 2 used to be all that was needed.

Agreed....seems that any monkey can wield a nailgun these days.

 

[dvw]

I just wanna know why that once the smoke comes out nothing works anymore....

Simple, its because the smoke that carry's the current. Let the smoke out. You have an open circuit.
Doug