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[OM] Re: Wireless HI-FI connect

Subject: [OM] Re: Wireless HI-FI connect
From: "Julian Davies" <julian_davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:23:21 +0100
Matchbox! - luxury!
We had to go and live in a lake!

Genius... Pure genius.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "IanG" <I@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 6:12 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Wireless HI-FI connect


>
> Thanks Mike. The house and interior partition walls are of breeze block
> construction set on a concrete platform built in the 1950's before the UK
> discovered electrical appliances - certainly before hi-fi reached these
> shores. A few years back we refitted the kitchen and found that we had
> wiring for one light and one 13amp appliance but there were THREE separate
> gas appliance connection points. In fact, as I recall, the whole of the
> ground floor had a total of 6 power outlets and only 3 on the upper floor.
>
> The house was not built for anything remotely like the number of gadgets
now
> available and certainly not for running speaker cables.
>
> In the same vein, I was brought up with my grandparents in a council house
> built on an estate for the Ford factory (Dagenham). I can still remember
> them having gas lighting and the joy on my grandmothers face when a gas
> water heater was fitted and we had hot running water for the first time.
> Electricity arrived some time later. Of course there was no bathroom in
the
> house. A 2 bedroomed mid terrace council house, with my grandparents,
their
> 3 sons, my mother and her husband and myself and my brother. Cosy. Well
not
> so cosy as the house had a very large crack in it as a result of a WW2
bomb
> landing a little too close.
>
> There is an old pre Monty Python sketch about being brought up in a
matchbox
> in the gutter of the Old Kent Road (well, similar sort of story line). We
> would have found that spacious :-)
>
> OM content. I'm seriously considering going back there for the TOPE urban
> entry. For disbelievers the address is 80 Grafton Road, Dagenham, Essex.
No
> post code as they hadn't been invented when I lived there.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Mike
> Sent: 21 August 2004 17:46
> To: 1 Olympus Digest
> Subject: [OM] Re: Wireless HI-FI connect
>
>
> >
> >
> >I'm going to lift the carpet around the rooms and run the cables in a
> >channel between 2 sets of carpet grippers. .....
> >
> Ian, I don't recommend lifting the carpet unless absolutely necessary.
> Nor do I recommend running current carrying wires near those nasty
> grippers. To be done properly this would entail removing furniture and
> re-stretching the whole carpet and this would endanger those wires. Why
> not just tuck the wire under the base shoe/trim around the wall and run
> under the carpet only at the doorways, under a transition strip if
> possible. Another possibility is to run the wires under the house and
> drill a small hole into the crawl space along the wall where the
> speakers will be placed. Getting the wire into the wall is easy behind
> the base shoe trim and can be fished down through the wall from the
> speaker cut out hole. I would also cut both wires the same length as the
> longest run and coil the excess under the house or somewhere.
>
> mike
>
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