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From: radio free silence <vicka@apocalypse.org>
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To: lcs@MIT.EDU, leira@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: how-do-to-it books
Cc: ayermish@alum.mit.edu, elbow-joints@haven.org
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Linda sez:
>   Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:14:53 EST
>   From: Larry Stone <lcs@MIT.EDU>
>
>   OBTW, I second Linda's recommendation on Taunton's _Wiring a House_.
>   I think they have a plumbing book by that writer too.
>
>The plumbing book claims to be more geared to new construction than
>renovation, so I wasn't sure if I should get it.  If anyone has
>actually seen it and has firsthand information about it, I'd like to
>hear what you think.

i've had some issues with rex cauldwell's work in general being geared
more towards new construction (or at least newer than most of what's in
my 1888 house).  my personal standard reference is this little red book --
not by chairman mao i don't think, though no other author is actually given
credit; it's copyright general electric.  the title is "wiring for the do-
it-yourselfer", the text is ridiculously straightforward, and it's got most
every clue a clueless git has needed thus far.  i found it in the electric-
supply aisle at tags hardware; i *haven't* been able to find an online source
(which makes me hesitate a little to recommend it, but fwiw....)

(that said, i'm currently stymied by what seems to be a short in a light
somewhere between two switches; i.e. somewhere not in a box.  but i may 
have a line on a professional clue; lacking that any other clue that came
my way might be rewarded by a trip to my latest discovery in excellent sushi :)

--vicka

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