Hi Michael, I would venture to guess that this was a UK thing. I remember, when I was over there, I bought an electric heater, the room I was renting was cold. I bought it, brought it back, went to plug it in, and lo and behold, no plug. I always thought it was a backward idea to have to buy a plug, because of the non conformity, of the sockets. There seemed to be a lot of experimenting with electrical stuff. I will be surprised if anyone over here, ever ran into a similar thing. Having said that, I have been proven wrong many times before. Best regards, John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Gamble" <michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 2:10 PM Subject: Re: humidity control and house fires > Hello List et al > I frequently come across a piano heater - really ancient - which is simply > an insulated element which has been attached in a zig-zag configuration to > the back of the "knee-board" There is a round three pin socket (male) let > into the panel. I have never come across one working though. The length of > that element is such that the configuration takes up at least ten > side-to-side (or end-to-end) stretches across the back of the knee-board. > This is the sort of heater which could cause fires.... > Regards > Michael G (UK) > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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