Thanks for the brown nosing anyway. I tend to laugh and relate to the Stapels commercial where the office pogies bribe the office supples person with donuts. How real to life with me and more especially my boss who in the end decides what is available for their shows. Primary source, yea my observations on the things I note would qualify for that, I just wish more people would add to the record with their own observations. My point, I appreciate the thanks, but it's sole and not whole again my point. Such things I post needs other observations to validate or argue to make that primary source balanced. I'm or was at least was working on my own book on lamps. Primary sources and experience, especially those that speak the non-technical are of a premium, but with them you get sources such as Frank Wood (many know of and is famous in his own way good and bad) or books like "Stage Lighting in the Boondocks", that even in my earliest days I will not have attempeted some things advocated in it. In the end, primary sources have to be blananced against a volume of sources or they in themselfs are invalid and often crackpots. I might not be but do openly admit my methods for doing things are while well thought out and usually proper, more than can be expected by everyone to hope to follow as more than the info given and a goal.
Hope it helps. On wire types, I have been collecting notes on it for a few years now out of code and tech electric books from the 1930s to now. In other words, it the notes include something like three different versions of asbestos wiring plus one similar to it but not it. Plus silk and rayon wiring types you won't otherwise see. I did not post such infor because it was not on topic and a very long list of just data.
As for citing me in a paper, I have a steady income. It's a good pedegree should it be required to make me an expert, yet still I learn something new every day and don't consider myself more than a lazy bodger of tinkering around with stuff or sitting all day down to wire stuff and analyze what I'm doing and how to improve so I won't see the stuff again as soon thus the cable repair tips.
On proposals, anything that improves tech and safety is my and all of our responsibility to pass on. If you need my pedagree again as can at times be useful off line it's yours, otherwise as always, I understand what I advise is possibly the optimum standards. That's what they are posted for as a standard. Use away, but remember dead wood and what works so far usually works so take little steps. Doing a formal proposal sometimes helps, usually with the bean counters just frustrates you in the end. Took years to install my system here, I'm a company man so I have years however. Weigh how much you can reasonably change for the better with what you most need to change. SunSu something like pick your battles and choose them well. All I can say. I would love to see others try my methods and gain stuff from what I write, but learning is best, as something to keep in the back of your head is enough.
Anyway print, post, use away as you can. Hope it helps, I did not have such things given out thus you have the advantage and I hope you in the end improve upon what's laid down.
thanks by the way.
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