"Michael A. Terrell" on Mon, 11 Mar 2013
11:17:29 -0400 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following: 2013"Cookie Factory" - find one at the second hand store (She did).
She's all sorts of table top cookers, seeing as how the stove is a bit ... erratic in tempiture and heat distribution.
-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."
The idiot that the previous owner hired to remodel the kitchen put every outlet on one 15A breaker. Anything more than a crockpot can trip the breaker the fridge is on. I have a new breaker box to be installed, when I have the money.
"Michael A. Terrell" on Sun, 10 Mar 2013
04:57:53 -0400 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:Since the invention of the automatic pinsetter, we've had to let the pinmonkeys go.
pyotr
-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."
pyotr filipivich fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Even after AMF put them out, there were a lot of lanes with semi- automatic setters. You had to scramble to set three lanes. You first grabbed the ball and put it on the return ramp, then hustled to get all the loose pins out of the pit (or off the deck) and thrown into the pinsetter rack. They had semi-circular 'hoes' to pull pins out of the gutters when they didn't fall into the pit.
When the frame was over, you finished filling the rack, and manually actuated the setter to put them down. It was electric, but only for lowering and raising. You still had to manually throw all the pins into the setting holes.
The whole deal was to get it all done before the ball made it back to the line. A good 'monkey' could set three lanes, and make $15-20 a 4-hour night back in the 1960s. (that was a chunk of change, then).
This was after the time when pins were manually set on spikes that raised up out of the deck.
I bought my first car by setting pins at the local college's eight lane bowling alley. You got tips if you worked fast!
Lloyd
And now they troll usenet. :(
"Michael A. Terrell" on Sun, 24 Mar 2013
11:50:53 -0400 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:Tain't like the old days, when there were jobs for which idiots were qualified.
-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."
Not true! We have a higher grade of idiot these days, and they can't do the jobs suited to the older model idiots. There just aren't enough low grade neurons available, to be able to give each idiot a full set.
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