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| Electro Detective:
Yeah, great fun finding UV crumbled chrissie light gutter clips hiding in grass with bare feet in summer :o :scared: :rant: A few years back I got lumped with boxes of these typical generic -origin of manufacture unknown and or unnamed- infernal lights, tangled and manged to hell, different strings and brands? to sort out = |O |O and if memory serves (one last time about this pet hate) I rigged up some shorting wire thingies to poke into random light sockets, even if the globes looked and tested ok, and after about ten or so pokes, I fixed the lot, but due to lack of replacement bulbs, sacrificed the last few in the end of the string/s, which got wrapped up and hidden away out of sight. I 'think' I had to terminate something/somewhere for the return path/s = :-// fwiw there were a few loose and or crusty sockets to clean and 'tighten' as well as dud globes Does this sound right? Pretty sure that's how it went down, I do remember wearing a magnifier with a torch They were a hassle to separate before the troubleshoot and even once they were working, they were still a PIT? >:( to untangle and organize properly for mounting and packing later I found that gently rolling the chain loosely in a box and labelling both ends goes a LONG way to keeping ones sanity.. Yep, I hate em, there I said it. :phew: I don't mind the Christmas vibe, but not some of the unnecessary and 'irrelevant to the actual real occasion' BS that goes with it ::) |
| xrunner:
--- Quote from: Electro Detective on December 23, 2019, 02:22:56 am --- Yeah, great fun finding UV crumbled chrissie light gutter clips hiding in grass with bare feet in summer :o :scared: :rant: --- End quote --- LOL that was a hoot reading, but dude get a laser Xmas display source, put in yard or wherever, shine on object, and relax. :-DD |
| Magicshark:
If I were you, I'd better buy new ones. Once, I had my Lights broken, I'd tried to fix them, and nothing good came out. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on December 22, 2019, 11:13:24 am --- --- Quote from: tooki on December 21, 2019, 03:35:40 pm --- --- Quote from: ebastler on December 20, 2019, 04:53:01 pm ---Candles, anyone? We still have them on the tree in the living room. Accept no substitute! 8) --- End quote --- We were absolutely shocked at our first Christmas in Switzerland (1992) when everyone put candles on their trees. In USA, where we moved from, that is absolutely unheard of in the modern era. --- Quote from: james_s on December 20, 2019, 04:57:34 pm ---Yikes, I'll use 70 year old strings of incandescent lamps with cloth covered wires but I'm not letting open flame anywhere near the tree. Evergreen trees are quite flammable and can go from a small flame to a huge fireball in a matter of seconds. --- End quote --- FYI, to the other shocked Americans: 1. A properly hydrated Christmas tree will not go up in flames if a single candle flame licks a branch for a second. (Ideally you should cut a fresh edge onto the trunk so that it can absorb water better.) 2. One NEVER lights candles except when the tree will be actively supervised. So that means the tree is lit only a handful of times the whole season. 3. It’s nonetheless a wise precaution to keep a fire extinguisher at hand, just in case. Xmas tree fires do happen every year to people who have violated the prior requirements, especially the one about keeping the tree hydrated, since dry evergreen needles do indeed burn exceedingly fast. --- End quote --- Better still get a Christmas tree with proper roots. I use the same one every year. It goes in a shady spot in the garden, over the summer and is watered regularly, especially durinh in hot, dry weather. Having said that, I deem using candles to be too risky vs the benefit and prefer to use LED lights. --- End quote --- Here in Zurich, where most people live in apartments and have at most a balcony, but no garden, there is a service that lets you rent a potted Christmas tree, then just return it after New Years. It costs about the same as a cut tree, which I think is fair given the work to nurse the trees the rest of the year. |
| Electro Detective:
--- Quote from: Magicshark on December 23, 2019, 04:10:42 am --- If I were you, I'd better buy new ones. Once, I had my Lights broken, I'd tried to fix them, and nothing good came out. --- End quote --- Great advice to be sure :-+ Unfortunately stubborn 'I got this..' suckers like me :-[ get 'good coming out of bad' from landfill worthy house igniting eye candy, so as not to spoil the festive vibe for young and older low on cash.. Atheists, agnostics? scrooges, and FAT Santa Clutz haters in general know how to save themselves a lot of drama and money, and enjoy their HAPPY HOLIDAYS without having to think about calling the Fire Brigade/Department in that high risk 60 day period. FWIW Christmas with all the BS lashings, is still a better deal than WEDDINGS, when all the closet crazies expose their concealed MENTAL ISSUES :scared: :scared: :scared: Add medication, alcohol, not so legal substance indulgence to that, plus the usual gossip stirring (the bride is bonking the best man and or vice versa) and even a well trained security team will choose to lose the pay and do a runner :phew: |
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