Re: No drill required

In article <vnuEi.10578$c_1.4205@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ivan wrote:
I can remember when we used to drill the frame with a brace and bit. When 
customers wanted to make a hole in the window frame they would often burn 
it through by using a repeatedly heated poker.


Some years ago I did a job at a local pub where the GPO bloke who had 
installed a line (for Prestel?) actually drilled a hole and ran the cable 
through the bottom of the window which meant that it couldn't be opened.
What never ceases to amaze me is the abysmal standard of workmanship that so 
many people are apparently prepared to put up with!

What never ceases to amaze me is that we've had broadcasting for threquarters
of a century, but although we've managed to incorporate other modern things
like gas cooking and heating, hot and cold running water and indoor flushing
toilets reasonably neatly into the design of most houses, aerials of all sorts,
and their cables, almost invariably look like something tacked on as an
afterthought. Even roof guttering and drainpipes usually look as if they were
designed to be there, but you'd think it had never occurred to the designers of
even quite modern houses that anybody might want to watch television.

Rod.

.

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