Home Electrical Wiring and Maintenance Made Easy: American Association for Vocational Instructional Materials (Aavim)

By Thomas S. Colvin

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830604731
• ISBN13: 9780830604739
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill School Education Group
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Harrowing Stroll down Electric Avenue

Circumstances have driven me to economize by doing a bit more manual labor about the house. On bleaker days they have also turned my thoughts toward becoming a wage-earning tradesman, preferably in a field in which unionization and consumer ignorance have driven hourly rates toward those earned by rapacious corporate lawyers. For both of these reasons this volume seemed like a wise investment. It is indeed an admirably thorough introduction to its topic, with illustrations and step-by-step instructions that should render even the most advanced topics comprehensible to a vocational school ninny. A detailed guide to necessary tools, as well as succinct advice on building an electrician's practice are also included. However after hard personal experience I have concluded that those who have virtually no facility with their hands should never, ever attempt to splice a High Energy Discharge tamp to inbound wiring that has even the remotest chance of linking back to the main city grid. Casting a third of Beacon Hill into darkness can generate a certain heady sense of power. However if this feat is accomplished inadvertently, and in the company of a brilliant shower of sparks followed by impenetrable darkness in one's basement, one instead tends to reflect soberly and humbly on one's own mortality.