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Personally Marking Your Work.

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Evenin, All, 


I sound like Dixon of Dock Green. I have just been rewiring an old holiday chalet built in the 1950s.    I often wonder just who wired it up originally and just what type of person he was. I know that the ceiling joists were hand drilled with a brace and bit.    Sometimes I find old empty cigarette packets under the floor of old houses, or old empty pipe tobacco packets.    I have started leaving my initials and a date in some of my new installations so that in say 50 years time somebody will find it and say, well this was installed by Z, isn't it old fashioned, but it lasted well.


Do you date anything or initial anything apart from light bulbs, (lamps) for others to find in the future?   



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    In a previous life, all our final "as fitted"  drawings had to be 100 year archive quality - there'll be a few repositories with said drawings with my signature on them knocking about in a few diverse parts of the world.


    I do wonder how we would recover some of the electronic stuff a few decades down the line (VHS v Betamax as an example)


    Other than that, I've never felt the urge to randomly mark up inaccessible places with my name so someone wonders who I was long after I'm gone.


    Personally I've always found those ancient images of a hand quite intriguing - made by spitting or "blowing" a mouthful of chewed ochre over the hand as a stencil - proper leaving "your mark"


    Did you used to be one of those yufs with a rucksack full of aerosols tagging his way across Norfolk, Z ?


    Regards


    OMS
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  • Former Community Member
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    In a previous life, all our final "as fitted"  drawings had to be 100 year archive quality - there'll be a few repositories with said drawings with my signature on them knocking about in a few diverse parts of the world.


    I do wonder how we would recover some of the electronic stuff a few decades down the line (VHS v Betamax as an example)


    Other than that, I've never felt the urge to randomly mark up inaccessible places with my name so someone wonders who I was long after I'm gone.


    Personally I've always found those ancient images of a hand quite intriguing - made by spitting or "blowing" a mouthful of chewed ochre over the hand as a stencil - proper leaving "your mark"


    Did you used to be one of those yufs with a rucksack full of aerosols tagging his way across Norfolk, Z ?


    Regards


    OMS
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