u/lupulinchem

It seems after 3 years of milky spore treatment I’ve got the Japanese beetles knocked back. Looks to be a good year! (SE USA). Harvest is still like 3 weeks out.

I’ve lived in my house since 2016, and the previous owner left me lists of interesting finds. This week, my disposal just suddenly was not working. (I’ve not ever replaced it, no idea how old it is). What was weird was that switch seemed really loose (like no power connection, or something, hard to describe, but like it wasn’t “switching” anything even though the toggle moved). So I had replacement switches on hand (wife wants the bright white not the 80s almond color outlets and switches, so slowly swapping them over.)

The pic is from when I got the switch out:

They had what appeared to be the neutral running through the switch. The connection to breaker box is directly below in the basement so it wasn’t too hard to trace it to see that yes, the disposal always had a hot connection and the neutral was what was breaking the current in the switch.

I swapped it all- connected the two neutrals, ran the load through a new switch and it works fine now.

So I’m wondering-

1. Why? Why would they run the neutrals through a switch instead of the load?
2. Did this burn up the switch?
3. Just how dangerous was this previous set up?

New to this sub, my wife’s granny just gave us these 4 pans out of her late husband’s collection (which is apparently extensive, I don’t know what all). They look beautiful to me, and I intend to cook with them, but also treat them in a way to take care of them. I’ve been reading a lot of the subs FAQ, but I thought I would share these photos and any thoughts or observations folks might have would be appreciated. I know nothing about these old pans, the cast iron I do have are all lodge skillets, baking sheets and a few enameled Dutch ovens.

Thanks in advance!

My wife took up playing the bass about 2 years ago (her first musical instrument). She started on a beginner squier J Bass, but on a recent trip to the local guitar center she picked up this jet streamliner bass and loved the shorter neck, action and the tone, and well I have to say it looks great next to the hollowbody!

On my Cascade and some of my Cashmere plants, I normally cut everything down about mid April and then train the second growth. Well I didn’t get to it yet and some of them are flowering!

Anyway they are all get hacked down next week to restart.