How to wire a 1970's plug...

I must have missed that, albeit, I'm not a woman. I think that type of advertizing is very educational so maybe the IET could do something about speed control with induction motors using variable speed drives and a complementary tea towel showing how to change the rotational speed of a universal motor.

In fact there are dozens of topics which would make excellent educational possibilities....I particulalrly like the public information shorts broadcasted in the 60s and 70s....


Legh

Legh has a brilliant point.


I think a tea-towel with how to accurately calculate the requirements for surge protection devices would be great. It should have the phone number of all the distributors so you can annoy them with questions they don't know the answer to while you dry your dishes.

Dry the dishes?


The dishes dry themselves if you leave them on the draining board or in the dishwasher. 


Andy B

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I think a tea-towel with how to accurately calculate the requirements for surge protection devices would be great. It should have the phone number of all the distributors so you can annoy them with questions they don't know the answer to while you dry your dishes.

All joking aside I like the idea of using unusual methods to communicate these kinds of things... ? They sometimes sink into your psyche without you realising it.


I have a T-shirt with a schematic drawing of an Audi TT on it and an acquaintance of mine has a tattoo of the wiring loom of his motorbike on his leg.. not sure how often he may refer to it but it's pretty 'hard core' to say the least! ?

Lol..."dry the dishes"

This should be made a compulsory past time for after dinner family activities.

Pocket handkerchiefs with printed analogue Intergrated circuit circuits seem like a winner for board housewives/husbands to keep clean  


Legh

Hi Lisa, I`d never seen that. Yes back in the day wiring a plug was second to "how to ties shoelaces". Having said that a lot of folks still made a pigs ear of it.

Public information films like "what to do when the nukes drop" and "how to cross the croad" were a plenty along with "trade test transmittions". That was back in the day when you had to turn the telly on 5 mins before coronation street to let it "warm up" (knowing where to bang it when it went wrong" was a popular pastime).


I think a tea towel or similar idea on the subject of "how to have a conversation/react with other people without the use of computerised gadgets" would be a good start.

How times change!


Are we to assume from this item that only women used tea-towels? ?


In our house, Mother did most of the cooking, but Father helped and we boys were expected to help with the preparation - e.g. peeling spuds. Duties were shared out which meant that (in the pre-dishwasher era) it was the males in the household who tended to do the washing and drying.


And now?


It's all dishwashers with moulded plugs and given the variety of tasty ready-meals in the supermarkets, cookery is a dying art. ?

I must admit I tend to put things in to soak for hours then leave them to dry overnite  it's not really a problem as there's only me and my girlfriend here so there's not piles of Washing up. Having no family defiantly helps from that point of view