CULTURAL QA11-2021-22 Being a compilation there may be errors
Q1 How often do you need tolubricate a ceiling fan? A1 3 Answers Bob Heath, former Combat Engineer Answered 5h ago Never it would almost be impossible to even try. It is not designed to be lubricated and thebearing use grease not oil so there is no grease fitting. 2NDANSWER-Venkateswara Swamy Swarna, former Scientist, Metallurgist, Quality / NDT Manager at Department of AtomicEnergy, India (1967-2008)answered 5h ago I have not lubricated a ceiling fan for years. They run as long as theycan and when the bearings start giving too much noise, they may need replacementand lubrication may notgive the desired results. Most of the bearings used for ceiling fans are sealed and are lubricatedfor their design life. 3RD ANSWER-LeeEdelberg , LicensedElectricianAnswered 23m ago Ceiling fans have lubrication holes on top of the motor housing. Lubrication once in a whilehelps keep the fan quiet. But how often, I don’t know. Maybe once everycouple of years. Q2 How did youngsters passtime, apart from studies during the sixties and seventies of the last century? A2 Gopalkrishna Vishwanath Havealways been interested in History, once I didn't have to learn it formallyNov 8(5m/876w) During the sixties and seventies, I had stepped into my teens and laterwas a college youth, graduated and had started my career and got married, andin the late seventies, I had become a parent when my daughter was born. Lifewas different those days. Internet, computers, TV and smartphones obviously did not exist. We played outdoor games andread books and comics and listened to the radio and gathered around street corners, or in tea shops forchatting, and we visited one another at their houses for socializing. Here is an extract from an old answer to a related question. During my boyhood, (the nineteen fifties and sixties) when TV, DVD’sComputers, Software, Video games, the internet did not exist we enjoyed thefollowing which are now only vague memories. 1)Flying a kite and “ladaaoing pech”, during fair weather and playingcarrom board and chess and card games indoors during rains. 2)playing marbles in the mud, or kabaddi, (hoo too too as it was calledin Mumbai), Paandi, “Ice spice” etc. 3)Playing cricket with tennis balls on the streets. No pads, no gloves,wickets marked with a piece of chalk on a wall so that no wicket-keeper or slipfielders or a third man or a fine leg was necessary. 4)Barefoot football on slushy maidaans during the rainy seasons. Theslush made it all the more fun. The mothers cursed because the clothes got sodirty. Sunlight Soap was useless in washing off the stains during those dayswhen washing machines did not exist. 5)Reading Comics (Archie, Classics Illustrated, Batman, Superman,Phantom) Amar Chitra katha, and Tinkle came much later. 6)Listening to stories from the Panchatantra, Ramayana and Mahabharataand Krishnavatara, etc sitting on the laps of our grandparents. 6)Listening to the radio (Vividh Bhaarati, Binaca Geetmaala and the AllIndia Radio news bulletins and the ball by ball cricket commentary on the testmatches.) 7) Reading plenty of books andnovels. Those of us whostudied in English medium schools, began with Aesop’s fables, Grimms Fairytales, progressed to Enid Blyton’s books, and later Agatha Christie, SherlockHolmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle preparatory to reading the mildly racy stuffin Harold Robbins novels. The girls read Mills and Boon novels. The boys readJames Hadley Chase, and Erle Stanley Gardner, and the like. I used to devour RKNarayan’s novels followed by reading innumerable times the Ramayana and theMahabharata. The Hindi wallas devoured Gulshan Nanda novels. Magazines werewildly popular. The Readers Digest, The illustrated weekly of India, Femina,Eve’s weekly, Blitz, Sport and Pastime, Filmfare were popular Englishperiodicals. Hindi walas read Dharmayug, Sarita, Saaptahik Hindusthan, ManoharKahaaniyaa.n, Dinmaan, Maadhuri. At home my mother and grandmom devoured Tamilperiodicals like Aananda Vikatan, Kalki, Kumudum, and a host of suchmagazines. 8)Newspapers were great! Theeditorials were awesome!During the times when word-processing was unknown and there was no such thingas spell check, we could not find a single typo in a newspaper like TOI or theHindu. Typists hammering away on manual and noisy type-writers producedflawless documents unaided by the backspace key, Ctrl X, Ctr C, and Ctrl V.Photocopying was unknown. A copy of a document was produced the hard way bytyping out the contents and getting them certified as a true copy and signedand sealed by a “gazetted officer”. Multiple copies of typed documents wereproduced by using carbon paper. Drawings were hand-drafted using a pencil ontracing paper and the copies were produced using Ammonia prints. 9)Nothing could be purchased “online”. We got up, walked to the shop, andmade our purchases. We paid in cash. Credit cards or ATMs were unknown. 10)There was no email. We wrote postcards and inland letters or enclosedthe handwritten letters in envelopes, stuck stamps, and walked to the nearestpost box and dropped them in. The letter would be delivered anywhere in Indiawithin two days if posted in the morning. A postcard cost us 5 paise 11)You could not watch a movieat home. No TV, no DVD.You went out, stood in long lines outside popular movie halls, and struggled tobuy a ticket, often purchased a ticket in the black market. Some movie fanaticsplanned for days in advance so that they could be privileged “first-day firstshow” watchers and even played truant from Schools/college/offices. The songsof the movie were printed in small pamphlets and sold for fancy prices outsidethe movie halls during the first week. Songs and snatches of the dialogue werebroadcast over popular (commercial) radio channels. Word of mouth publicity wasalso popular. Our friends who could mimic heroes were in great demand. I hadfriends who were in the privileged group of ‘first-day first show” watchers andthey regaled others after coming out of the theatre and re-enacted scenes from themovie with dialogues! Not one of them could listen to a lecture in college andabsorb the academic lessons as well as one single movie-watching session. Todayyou have Youtube! Where should I stop? I could go on and on. Don’t feel too sorry for us.We too enjoyed our childhood and boyhood in our own way. All of you youngsterswill probably be recalling today’s wonders of internet technology and when itbecomes history and gives way to newer technologies 50 years hence. My note- During my student dayswe played at templepremises, all chit chatting was there. Reading Library books and taking notesfrom informative books. Writing for Hand written Magazine, bound andcirculated. Elders used to read more the magazine. Listening radio from libraryand later days from near by rich homes. Q3 What is special aboutBelur’s Chennakeshava Temple? A3 VinodKumar Lives in Kota, Rajasthan,IndiaSat "To other countries, I may go as a tourist but to India I come as apilgrim" - Martin Luther King. Sri Vishnu in his Keshav Avatarplaying a flute. Chennakeshava Temple, also referred to as Keshava, Kesava orVijayanarayana Temple of Belur, is a 12th-century Hindu temple in the Hassandistrict of Karnataka state, Bharat 🇮🇳. It was commissioned by King Vishnuvardhana in 1117CE.The temple was built over three generations and took 103 years to finish. Itwas repeatedly damaged and plundered during wars, repeatedly rebuilt andrepaired over its history. The Hoysala Empire and its capital was invaded, plundered and destroyedin the early 14th century by Malik Kafur, a commander of the Delhi Sultanateruler Alauddin Khalji.Belur and Halebidu became the target of plunder anddestruction in 1326 CE by another Delhi Sultanate army.The territory was takenover by the Vijayanagara Empire.The Hoysala style, states James C. Harle, came toan end in the mid 14th century, when Hoysala king Veera Ballala III was killedin a war with the Muslim Madurai Sultanate followed by his son. Q4 How do I control TDS inmy water RO filter to get TDS at allowable and safe limit? A4 2 Answers Pradip Shah , B.S.M.E from ChicagoTech (1973)Answered 1h ago You can’t. What you can do is mix Ultra Filtered water and RO water todilute to what you consider to be safe TDS. This IMHO should be around 150 to200. 2nd answer- Gopala Krishnan,former Assistant GeneralManager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966-2004)Answered just now I have read in the booklet of my new ROS by the company, if the TDS ofthe ROS of a unit output is more, add a second unit. The ROS of a single unit is only about 30%efficient removing impurities. Q5 Why does a fan consumemore power than light when high resistance will consume low power but a fan hashigh resistance? How will it take high power? A5 GopalaKrishnan , former Assistant GeneralManager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966-2004) Answered just now It is not understood how the question is asked. In AC fan the motor has to run with its weight andfour blade’s weight. The regulator is only to adjust the speed. Normal wattage is above 65 watts for fan and about 45 watts for a tubelight. Q6 Is a carbon filter goodfor drinking water? A6 GopalaKrishnan , former Assistant GeneralManager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966-2004)Answered just now Yes. From the very beginning ofwater filtering carbon from wood burnt is used. Now in all water filtering systems one filter iscarbon, coconut shell burnt small pieces of carbon is used. When the technicianreplace the old carbon filter you can open and see carbon pieces Q7 Is it safe to leave anair conditioner on all the time? A7 3 Answers-Hu JinqinAnswered Fri Assuming the installation is done properly, an air conditioner’s limitsis largely electrical consumption and whether the thermostat itself works. For electricity, you will either have a sufficient BTU rating for therespective room and have an always-cold-ass room, and your electricity billwill skyrocket unless the room is also very well insulated (a huge benefit,though ultimately unrelated to the AC unit itself); Or, the thermostat for the air conditioner is busted so it always thinksthe room is warm and skyrocket the hell outta your power bill. Or, the thermostat works and the air conditioner never actually stays onall the time. The only safety concerns are: Poorly designed or installed condensation disposal. If your AC unit dopesnot drain any water properly, that water will be a nesting ground for bacterialgrowth such as molds and Legionnaire’s Disease, all of which presents safetyissues (ie you get sick and die). For instance, I had an AC unit that didn’tproperly dispose of the water accumulation so it started spilling over onto thewindow sill; had I not noticed early on, it would have caused water damage tothe entire home, resulting in not only safety issues but extremely expensivehome restoration. Poorly designed electrical systems. This is less common with modernbuildings, but older homes or improperly installed wiring may result inproblems with delivering enough power, or the wiring lacks the circuity whichmight lead to fires. At least where I live, the smaller window AC units use 120V circuitry,meaning that you pretty much cannot share the outlet with anything other than aphone charger. Larger AC units require dedicated circuitry, which if your housewas built professionally would have special mains outlets for the 240V/250Vunits. And if you’re scratching your head over what I am saying, then youclearly are in no position to think an AC unit would be safe to use, atall! Accumulation of fire hazards. Air conditioners include air filtration, which means the filters willhave to be cleaned or replaced over time, otherwise the dust and particle buildup present a possible fire risk. This is the same with clothes dryers. Pretty much all of these sorts of safety issues are easily mitigated if,despite the AC unit be NEARLY on all the time, there is good and regularmaintenance carried out. Which itself presumes that the AC unit may always beon, but someone with the barest technical knowledge in maintenance is actuallyin the room during those times (which also means the energy being used to coolthe room isn’t actually being wasted). But I take that as a given since no one really uses an ACunit “all the time” in a room but leave it empty…unless it’s like a fridge or arestaurant freezer room… There are other safety concerns with AC units, but those are things likedefective AC components that aren’t related to the subject matter, since mostof us expect the air conditioners we buy to properly function out of the box. 2nd answer-JamesMason, Former technician Answered Thu An air conditioner is operated by a thermostat. When the temperature inthe living space rises above a given temperature it automatially comes on;otherwise, it is off the rest of the time anyway. 3rd ANSWER- Gopala Krishnan,former Assistant GeneralManager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966-2004)Answered just now If the AC unit is old, in simple words fire riskmay come. If brand new I don’t think any problem can happen for running2–3 days without switching off. Circuit breaker control is there if any problemoccur, Just like water heater switching off and ON the AC also may function. Ifno person is there the coolness is absorbed by the walls, fittings etc. Q8 Can you ground withaluminum wire? A8 VamanKulkarni , former Retired Professor ofPhysics at University of Mumbai (1984-2005) Answered 6h ago Any conducting wires can beused for grounding. Aluminum is allowed. Copper is preferable. Because aluminum becomes oxidised faster and becomesbrittle. the earthing may not last longer. Of course, one can use aluminum wirefor grounding. Q9 Can an Indian (Hindu)father give his self acquired property to an employee (through PoA) who wasworking in his office? Can the wife and children file a case against theemployee for poisoning his mind? A9 Kanthaswamy BalasubramaniamLawyer Nov 16 Indian Father who self acquired the property can give it to anyone onearth. PoA is a legitimate documentused to transfer propertyfrom the Indian Father to the Employee provided entire stamp duty andregistration fee has been paid in full. Of course the wife and kids can file a case against the Employee was“UNDUE INFLUENCE” and make all sorts of weird claims The Case will have a field day in court for many many hearings Q10 How do I make myroom 2 to 3°C warmer than the outside temperature in the winter season? A10 SwarnaVenkateswaraSwamy Swarna ,former Scientist, Metallurgist, Quality / NDT Manager at Department of AtomicEnergy, India (1967-2008) Answered Fri Good insulation should do the trick. Your presence in the room will warmthe inside air. If you need, you can augment that witha room heater. All the above QA are from Quora website on 21-11- 2021. Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan ,78, former AGM Telecom Trivandrum on 22-11-2021 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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