On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:51:58 GMT, the renowned Joerg
wrote:
>James Robinson wrote:
>
>> Joerg wrote:
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>>>Can you just plug in or do you have to slide your credit card first?
>>
>>
>> At the moment, they are free, though the thought of charging probably
>> hasn't escaped the attention of the airline.
>
>
>Maybe like the showers in cheap hotel in the UK. When I was a kid I had
>my sobering experience there. The boiler was at the end of the hallway.
>So you had to insert a coin and then run back to the shower. Almost when
>finished the dang thing suddenly turned ice-cold.
Reminds me of this "heating on demand" water heater mounted in a
shower in a fairly modern China residence type hotel:
http://server2.hostingplex.com/~zstoretr/shower.jpg
Note the 240V electric outlet and open gas flame (showing through the
slots), gas exhaust, metal parts etc. *inside* the shower. Some
exclamation marks after the characters in the photocopied instructions
too. Lots of ways to die from that contraption.
Electronic ignition. Shut the water off and the gas flame is
immediately extinguished. The left knob says big/small flame, and the
right knob says big/small water flow. I forget what the middle one did
(a rotary switch, I thing).
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