Re: Surge / Ground / Lightning

Jim Redelfs wrote:
> 
> In article <MdKdnQNUvK94AbrVnZ2dnUVZ_hKdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > Do you remember that wall wart being the first one
> > recalled for being a fire hazard?
> 
> That was one of Western Electric's first uses of a third-party supplier.
> In this case, it was Ault Manufacturing.
> 
> The Ault transformer recall was HUGE.
> 
> There are still MANY Western Electric dial-light transformers in service
> to this day.  Virtually all are powering NOTHING but have not been
> unplugged.
> :)


   That is very easy to explain:  "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in" with Lilly
Tomlin as Ernestine, the telephone operator: "We're the phone company.
We don't care, we don't have to."

<http://www.lilytomlin.com/charns/ernestine/quotes.htm>
<http://www.lilytomlin.com/lily/lilygal/lilyswitchboard.html>
 :)


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