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Consume, lead (media.scored.co)
posted 1 year ago by derjudenjager on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +15Score on mirror )
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SprinterVanBeethoven on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 2 children
Years ago I was rewiring a really old house. Knob and tube(commonly added to existing homes) but through the walls there was a product I'd never seen before or since. All the in-wall wiring was done with a lead jacketed cable. If you know what romex is just picture that but the sheathing was 1/8" lead.
Since then I've read about EMF and how sometimes it can affect us. In our homes the in-wall wiring is all installed at about 36-48" horizontally. Its been that way for over 100 years which is relatively "short" in the aspect of time. I just wonder about that. Did they know something back then,with the lead sheathing or was it merely another construction supply of the time?
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Captain_Raamsley on scored.co
1 year ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror ) 1 child
They knew squat compared to what we know now
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SprinterVanBeethoven on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Well, yeah.
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HerrBBQ on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
>36-48"

You mean the average height that would be convenient for an average size man to install wires, with no crouching down or reaching up required? How peculiar.
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SprinterVanBeethoven on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Yeah. Pretty much were the drill rests on the hip is where the holes go in the studs. That's no conspiracy. It's not something I worry about but I read something a while ago about the emf at internal organ height. I don't remember the whole thing I'm not losing sleep over it. I just thought maybe they were taking precaution back then and using lead to shield it.
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