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Alfred
I was in my mid-30s when I first met Alfred. He was probably 20 years older than me. I never asked exactly how old he was.
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Baseboard: How Much Is Too Much?
So this hefty gent comes up to me after a hot-water seminar and tells me about a problem he's having with this copper-fintube baseboard loop he installed in this big...
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All Steam Is Not Created Equal
Take a pound of water (that's about a pint), and heat it from 32° F to 212° F.
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The Leaky Bucket
The question was in the Manchester Evening News, a British newspaper, and it caught my eye when I was going through my daily Google Alerts on things that have to...
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Never Wrong
So I’ve known this guy (let’s call him Jerry) for a very long time. We came up in the business together, and I like him.
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Plastics!
Fifty-one years ago, I sat in the movie theater with my 17-year-old girlfriend at the time, who really didn’t want to be there because this was a Sixties film, and...
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How to Talk Me Out Of It
We were once a five-car family. That was when the four daughters were in college. Three of them had cars, which The Lovely Marianne and I paid for, of course.
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Buddy's Beaters
It wasn’t a very long list – just 25 people in all – but it nagged at Buddy in the night and robbed him of his rest.
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Hands In Pockets, Please
Have you ever found yourself in some dank basement staring at (and totally appreciating!) the simple beauty of some old one-pipe, gravity-return steam heating system? You're down there in the...
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A Copper Mystery
We’ve lived in this little house in Bethpage, NY since 1977. Bethpage was once home to Grumman, which built fighter planes, canoes, campers, buses, and the Apollo Lunar Module.
