Spehro Pefhany wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:51:58 GMT, the renowned Joerg
> wrote:
>
>
>>James Robinson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Joerg wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>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).
>
That sure is spooky!
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Regards, Joerg
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