Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

Darkwood · Mar 21, 2015

Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

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[ElectriciansForums.net] Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago.

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a1guvner · Mar 23, 2015

Paul.M said:
What the hell did they use to hold it up in the first place? Bluetack

(sorted out the pics for you btw Guv)

Had their rep come down to sell their wares and all looked good but the product codes were wrong with what they demonstrated. they stated one code was rated at 40k per fixing when it was actually 20k. the fixing had a part that clips through unistrut (now known as the weak link) under load it just pulled through and once one had gone there was no stopping the rest running away. The 40k version actually just omits the unistrut clip and the wire is just sleeved and looped through a hole.

Paul.M · Mar 23, 2015

a1guvner said:
Had their rep come down to sell their wares and all looked good but the product codes were wrong with what they demonstrated. they stated one code was rated at 40k per fixing when it was actually 20k. the fixing had a part that clips through unistrut (now known as the weak link) under load it just pulled through and once one had gone there was no stopping the rest running away. The 40k version actually just omits the unistrut clip and the wire is just sleeved and looped through a hole.

It is not even carrying that much weight by the looks of it. A lot more cables to be installed going by the amount of basket and tray. Thank god it happened when it was still a building site and not a functional building!

a1guvner · Mar 23, 2015

Paul.M said:
It is not even carrying that much weight by the looks of it. A lot more cables to be installed going by the amount of basket and tray. Thank god it happened when it was still a building site and not a functional building!

Definitely, imagine if it was fully loaded, it was only having a suspended ceiling below it and that was the main exit route with a lot of foot traffic planned and it came down on them, Big claims#!!!!!!!!

Paul.M · Mar 23, 2015

That could have turned out to be the biggest cause of electrical death whilst exiting a building the UK has ever seen. Hope that company gets their nuts and bolts sorted out for the next project.

Darkwood · Mar 23, 2015

This is what happens when a welder doesn't have his return clamped properly and the 400amps uses the turn table supply earth to return on.... note how its burnt out in its twisted core design.

This is why welding is a massive danger to the integrity of the buildings circuit and equipotential bonding... it can destroy the earth to many circuits leaving them live and exposed in some cases. Many a death has been attributed to poor welding set-ups of the years.

Kamikaze · Mar 23, 2015

Poor man’s chandelier

shanky887614 · Mar 23, 2015

a1guvner said:
Had their rep come down to sell their wares and all looked good but the product codes were wrong with what they demonstrated. they stated one code was rated at 40k per fixing when it was actually 20k. the fixing had a part that clips through unistrut (now known as the weak link) under load it just pulled through and once one had gone there was no stopping the rest running away. The 40k version actually just omits the unistrut clip and the wire is just sleeved and looped through a hole.

what type of fixing was it?

usually for us its raw bolted unistrut to ceiling then everything else hangs off that

Geordie Spark · Mar 23, 2015

Paul.M said:
What the hell did they use to hold it up in the first place? Bluetack

(sorted out the pics for you btw Guv)

Whatever they used it certainly wasn't Gaffer Tape !! :laugh:

Geordie Spark · Mar 23, 2015

shanky887614 said:
what type of fixing was it?

usually for us its raw bolted unistrut to ceiling then everything else hangs off that

Ah!... That'll be the undercooked variety of fixing.

shanky887614 · Mar 23, 2015

Geordie Spark said:
Whatever they used it certainly wasn't Gaffer Tape !! [emoji23]

a1guvner · Mar 23, 2015

It was a product called zipclip. Basically you still a 6mm hole, then you have an eye bolt basically that you just bang in which none had failed then the wire comes off that