Posted on 09/05/2019 3:01:01 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Wow...I had no idea. Most likely you have to flush then 4 or 5 times.
Sometimes. I keep a plunger nearby. When remodeling my mother-in-law's home we tried to buy a custom toilet, and had difficulty finding one to meet California standards. Can't be shipped from elsewhere unless 1.28 gpf.
maybe where you are, they do not where I am.
” most likely pre-dated the 1906 earthquake”
That technology was not available then.
A guy walks into a bar carrying jumper cables. The bartender says, "Hey pal, don't start anything in here.
That's odd because the bulbs had date-stamps for those early years. My dad bought the house in 1950 and the bulbs were there, and no one was reproducing vintage bulbs at the time.
Fluorescent lamps are misnamec and they are mercury vapor lamps
and all contain mercury vapor concentrations approximately 2 million times which you should ever be exposed to
when you ignite mercury vapor all you get is UV radiation
the UV radiation is absorbed by phosphorus coating on the glass and gives off mostly visible light - but it’s horrible quality light flickers and if you ever break these things do you have a toxic mess
We have 3 old expensive brass table lamps that we have not been able to by replacement 3 way bulbs. I hope they come bak on the market...
Thank you.
That’s what I had and yes, the drier is vented inside with a special filter box so I get “free” heat and humidity in the winter.
It shocked me to see how much “powder” blasted out of the bulb, which burst for no reason.
It was not the only one that had “issues”.
I had several that developed scary bulging black “blisters” near their base where the glass had bubbled outward.
These were not dime store cheapies, either, usually Sylvania CFLs.
Incandescent uses more power ( money) than LED.
OK, I checked online and you are correct, they are far more expensive, about $20 a doz. for 60 watt LED.
It must have just have been in MI walmart’s?
Yep - I still use 3-way bulbs in a few lamps but LEDs are everywhere else these days...
I bought up 6 cases of 100w incandescent before the embargo.I thought the black market would be up and going before Iran out.
LED bulb technology has made this debate a moot point. Now much cheaper, last longer and use very little electricity.
Our 1978 home had the whole ceiling full of those 3 or 4 ft long fluorescents. If they were all screwed in they could blind you so I always left about half of them burned out. I still had to replace them all the time. Hated them so a few years back had a guy come in and replace all of them with canned lighting LED’s. So much prettier and I’ve only had to replace 1 bulb.
So what? It’s not changing my budget.
Seriously we’re not talking about that much electricity here. I should live long enough to see that much of a difference in my electric bill. Remember I got most of those bulbs for a quarter a piece.
maybe they were having a clearance sale because that particular brand was being test marketed. Sounds plausible.
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