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Once upon a time, when a manufacturers’ rep was foolish enough to hire me and teach me enough to be dangerous, I suggested to my boss that he would be very smart if he al...
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Disassembly Required
It’s a good price and they’ll assemble it for us,” The Lovely Marianne looked up from her iPad and nodded. “This is a good deal. And you should definitely not be assembli...
Thieves
We had a warehouse break-in over the weekend when I was young and working inside-sales (read, order-taking) for a manufacturers’ rep on the Isle of Long. We had just move...
Air Vents and Oversized Radiators
Years ago, my friend Frank Taverna (who happens to be one hell of a good heating man) and I looked at a steam problem in a small church in New York City. Five one-pipe st...
Eureka: An Early Diverter Tee
In 1897, Eureka made an early version of what we now call the diverter tee. It worked by creating a drop in pressure along its run, which encouraged the water to flow int...
A Foreign Exchange
It took Jimmy about a half-hour to realize that the homeowner hadn’t understood a word he had said. “The guy was a real dummy,” Jimmy told Larry, who had been his partner...
Your Pet Peeves
I asked this question on The Wall at HeatingHelp.com: “Just curious. What gets under your skin these days when it comes to your local wholesalers?” Then I sat back and wa...
When Minds Close
A guy I don’t know emailed me a question. I get a lot of that because I’m easy to find on the internet. He wanted to know if it’s true that all manufacturers stopped maki...
Educating the New York Market (Wallace-Eannace Assoc. 1986)
This Wallace-Eannace Assoc. newsletter from 1986 focuses on industry education at the time and the early career of Dan Holohan, industry author and teacher.
Radiator Covers
Should you box in those radiators? Let’s take a look at radiator enclosures. Some people use them because they think old radiators are ugly (I sure don’t).