The First Rule of Stupidity

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The First Rule of Stupidity

When you do something stupid, you will always receive an award, which will lead you to do things of greater stupidity.

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Larry Weingarten

Hi, I really want to find one of those counterclockwise screwdrivers! There is a painting of a man on a tall library ladder. It's called the Bookworm and is from 1850: Here's a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bookworm_(painting) Now, if the guy just had a pipe wrench hanging off him, it would be perfect!

Yours, Larry

DanHolohan

Yes, Larry. Yes!

Grallert

such a good lesson.

unclejohn

Every one needs one of these.

dopey27177

Back in the day.

Early 1800s a stem system was installed with cast iron pipe. The steam system worked amazingly well and the manual air vents never had to be opened to bleed the air out of the system.

One problem occurred, There was a foul odor in the house when steam was turned on to heat the building.
The owner called in an engineer to find out what the problem was. The engineer found many sand holes in the piping. When the sand holes (automatic venting) were sealed the manual vent valves had to be used to purge air out of the system to allow the the radiators to get hot.

This designer learned that air needed to be purged constantly for the radiators to get hot when heat was needed.

IF I remember correctly, Hoffman Specialties Company republished an article from the Architectural Review about 1929 of an article by J.F. Musselman titled The parts of Air Vents in steam heating progress.

Jake