I have a client with a wall of old catalogs and other stuff going back decades. Not sure what will become of that.
Todd G Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, CT 860-535-2080 www.fpdc.com > On Oct 23, 2014, at 6:26 PM, Cliff Whitfield <[email protected]> wrote: > > Steve, > > Hopefully you didn't throw them away. There are several guys out there that > keep these for future generations (Cecil Bilbo comes to mind, if my memory > serves me correctly!) Some of these guys would even pay the postage for you > to ship the catalogs. Go figure > > For the record, I'm not one of those guys. I left mine with the trash man > about 5 years ago! > > Cliff Whitfield, SET > President > Fire Design, Inc. > Ph: 719-488-3479 > > > > [email protected] > www.fire-design.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sprinklerforum [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Steve Leyton > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 1:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Sentimental pragmatism > > Just thought I'd share with the senior demographic that I have just made > a difficult but prudent decision regarding space planning and resource > management in our new office. We've moved to a new suite within the > same building, so had the luxury of moving individual work stations and > components very deliberately from upstairs to down, without having to > box everything up and then unpack. In the course of putting things into > place in the new office, I had to confront my treasured catalog library. > Fact is that I only use hard copies of three or four catalogs with any > regularity and just about everything we need is on-line. I've been > having a hard time letting go, if only out of habit and fond memories. > but I eventually determined that the common sense course of action was > to aggressively thin out my collection. So, not having touched them > since we last moved 5 years ago, I just said goodbye to my Firematic, > Star, Automatic, Central, Viking Foam, Viking Supplynet, Gem and > Grinnell books. I still have my Potter Roemer catalog but I admit that > I really don't need it. And what the hell was Sclairpipe - how did > that even get in there? > > > > Steve Leyton > > PROTECTION DESIGN & CONSULTING > > 2851 Camino del Rio South, Suite 210 > > San Diego, CA 92108 > > ------------------------------------------- > > Ph: 619.255.8964 - ext. 102 > > Fax: 619.255.9364 > > Cell: 619.972.5696 > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
