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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Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.

[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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DPG · Jan 3, 2018

At least there's somewhere to hang your test meter.

Strima · Jan 19, 2018

My local post office needs to get a grip of their data installers...

Wilko · Jan 19, 2018

Strima said:
My local post office needs to get a grip of their data installers...

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What's caused that do you reckon? Is it birds perhaps?

SparkyChick · Jan 19, 2018

That looks much like the VIR I found in a property... it was accompanied by the question "Can I turn it on?"

I'd say this example is down to sunlight or general weathering.

Edit:- It's caused by heat/UV from the fluorescent tube... just noticed what it was tied to

Strima · Jan 19, 2018

This is indoor and a good 10m from natural light. Looks like heat from the 6’ floro tube has caused the insulation to fail.

I did point this out to the manager and she just shrugged at me, her profit lost when her data network fails on a busy day..,

Strima · Jan 19, 2018

Oh yeah, this is a public area and the cables are supported by sticky pads, this is an escape route but as usual the data chimps don’t care about fire supports etc.

Toneyz · Jan 19, 2018

Strima said:
Oh yeah, this is a public area and the cables are supported by sticky pads, this is an escape route but as usual the data chimps don’t care about fire supports etc.

Too right were using metal conduit saddles for PVC conduit on escape route and data come along and just tie their bunch of cables with plastic cable ties.

elsparko · Jan 19, 2018

anthonybragg said:
Too right were using metal conduit saddles for PVC conduit on escape route and data come along and just tie their bunch of cables with plastic cable ties.

to be fair though the pvc conduit will just melt and drip down the wall if there is a fire, leaving the nice metal saddles on the wall

DPG · Jan 19, 2018

But the wires within will be held up by the saddles.

elsparko · Jan 19, 2018

DPG said:
But the wires within will be held up by the saddles.

true, unless the rawl plugs melt and it all falls down

HandySparks · Jan 19, 2018

Strima said:
This is indoor and a good 10m from natural light. Looks like heat from the 6’ floro tube has caused the insulation to fail.

This nylon choc block was brittle and falling apart after sitting on a fluorescent tube. Pretty certain it will be the UV from the tube. You don't get the same effect with things resting against hot water pipes; usually some melting, if anything.

freddo · Jan 25, 2018

Not mine but found on an old disc from 10 years ago.

westward10 · Jan 26, 2018

Couple from a lift motor room I have been working in this week circa 1950s. One a lift control panel, not dodgy but still operating with little evidence of alterations. The second a fused line/neutral switch fuse which has a socket connected from it, cpc cut out to boot.

Deleted member 72666 · Jan 26, 2018

What a fantastic example that lift panel is, I see that it has been modified over the years, namely the slydlock fuses.

freddo · Jan 26, 2018

stantheman said:
namely the slydlock fuses.

What age would you say the fuses are?

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