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  • Swedneck
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    5 months ago

    yeah that still doesn’t make sense to me, the only way i see it working is if you have a single torch placed in a face so it’s all upwards.

    and why would you design something so strange to hold torches? imagine coming to someone’s house and their light switches are pipe valves in a closet you have to turn to dim the lights throughout the house, wack

    if you want to hold multiple torches you can just have multiple sconces

    • Droechai@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      Your light switch situation sounds like someone jury rigged their own Victorian gas light system with the controls in the cabinet next to the gas line for the stove.

      Sounds very safe and an easy hobby project to teach both plumbing and explosive fire extinguishing