BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Shoulda had a T8! That's a larious!!! :)
Thanks!
Steve P.
--- Rick Barnes <rascal@scrtc.com> wrote:
>
> Tom, if you ever meet me, you are gonna kick my butt
> for this one..but I
> cannot resist...
>
> You shoulda had a T8!
>
> Rascal
>
> (good job Man)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On
> Behalf Of Terrible Tom
> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:20 AM
> To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
> Subject: DML: Is NOTHING made well anymore? (rant)
>
>
> I just spent an hour and a half installing a new
> fluorescent lamp unit
> down in my basement. The 4 lamps down there are old
> - kinda cheap units
> - with yellowed and cracked covers. So rather than
> putz with old lamps I
> went to Lowes tonight and bought 4 new replacements
> and a new bulk box
> of T40 tubes - no I did not want to pop for the
> added expense for T8
> fixtures and tubes.
>
> Curse at the former owner of the house for not
> marking in the breaker
> panel what breakers power what circuits. Stand there
> flicking breakers
> on and off till I find the ones I want and get
> cursed at by the people
> above me because I'm fucking around with all the
> lights in the house...
> Slice up my hands fighting with the thin sheet metal
> housings, swear,
> drop screws, curse, yell at the cat under my feet,
> spew vulgarities at
> the cordless drill that decided it didn't want to be
> charged anymore
> when I was in the middle of using it.
>
> Finally get the damned thing wired up - turn power
> back on - flip the
> switch - all the tubes do is flicker as if the thing
> has a bad
> ballast!!! I swapped those tubes into one of the
> old fixtures still up
> - and they light up just fine.
>
> -----insert loud vulgar rant of your favorite swear
> words here-----
>
> I swapped out all the old tubes for new ones that
> were meant for the new
> fixtured... and its nice and bright down there
> again. All the new lamps
> are going back to Lowes and I'm just sticking with
> the new tubes. Save
> myself $100 that way.
>
>
> You can't get quality anything any more!!
> Interesting now that I think
> about it - the fixture at the store display in the
> isle was flickering
> just like mine did. That should have been a red
> flag.
>
> Going to sleep...
>
> --
>
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