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Fatherly hazing (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] FrowingFostek 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What kind of work was this?

Pardon my ignorance, I only know surveyors that use plumb bobs.

[–] BeMoreCareful 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Probably carpentry

[–] FrowingFostek 3 points 6 months ago

I never even considered this. I'm so used to carpenters using lasers now that I forgot plumb bobs were more popular.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think he was using it to align a speaker so that the cable drop would be vertical to the hole where the cable came out. It was something like that, it was about 25 years ago so details as hazy.

[–] FrowingFostek 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for getting back to me.

I do a little cabling so the idea of using a plumb to align a cable drop sounds wild to me lol.

Then again I haven't been doing cableing very long so what the hell do I know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ha yeah honestly it's weird to me too but they were old boys and did a lot of odd things.