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..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
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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Ib≤In≤Iz · Apr 7, 2018

Another bodge found a while back now. Switch being used to isolate 7.5kw shower

Wilko · Apr 8, 2018

I know it's not the worst thing, but I don't get why some folk will add sleeving like that. It costs nothing and they've had to cut a new bit, so why not the whole thing ?

Wilko · Apr 8, 2018

I know it's a small thing, but I don't get why some folk will add sleeving like that. It costs nothing and they've had to cut a new bit, so why not the whole thing?

dksanders · Apr 14, 2018

Called out to a restaurant as the kitchen was tripping out. This is the DB which feeds the restaurant, a sub main to the kitchen and also flats above.

Apart from being horribly imbalanced, not the tidiest of jobs, no grommet strip where the cable go through the case, but on the face of it it looks reasonable, all the socket circuits are RCBO protected etc. until I noticed that the white RCBO earth leads were tucked behind the other wires and not connected to anything so they won't operate as quickly as designed or in the case of an earth fault if the neutral was also lost.

I'm going back to put a new sub main into the kitchen (the existing 63A one is over loaded and tripping the MCB) but I'm dreading doing IR testing on the RCBO protected circuits for when I connect those earth leads as I'm sure there's going to be lots of faults and that's probably why the 'electrician' left them disconnected.

dksanders · Apr 14, 2018

Oh well. at least it was sleeved......

pirate · Apr 15, 2018

this one wasn't...

However, you can see I have looked out a grommet to cure the lack of one. The double socket this was connected to was held on by the usual two 3.5.. screws , one short one and one very long one, the latter to drag the squinty-fixed back box from the depths of the wall...and of course there was no earth to the front plate.
Can someone advise me on the likely age of this wiring with its multiple earth wires, 3 per cable? Or is it my eyesight...

Rpa07 · Apr 15, 2018

That’s a nice colour wall! Anyone we know, VIPoo by any chance?

pirate said:
this one wasn't...
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However, you can see I have looked out a grommet to cure the lack of one. The double socket this was connected to was held on by the usual two 3.5.. screws , one short one and one very long one, the latter to drag the squinty-fixed back box from the depths of the wall...and of course there was no earth to the front plate.
Can someone advise me on the likely age of this wiring with its multiple earth wires, 3 per cable? Or is it my eyesight...

littlespark · Apr 15, 2018

pirate said:
Can someone advise me on the likely age of this wiring with its multiple earth wires, 3 per cable? Or is it my eyesight...

1960's at a guess. They were onto solid core 2.5 by the 70's

pirate · Apr 15, 2018

Lol! Rpa07...the same VIP as I'm mounting the telly for, but well spotted!
She's in Rome for a few days so I'm taking today off, mainly because I don't like to be drilling, raggling and hammering etc on a Sunday as it would annoy the neighbours.

Thanks, littlespark, I'll note that...1960's...so, not as old as I am!
Wearing better, though...

SparkyChick · Apr 17, 2018

Here's a nice reminder of why you should always try and isolate fuses before pulling them

Thankfully I noticed the second red dot was missing and the screw was loose.

Oh... and it's also a timely reminder about why you should keep a few bits of junk you remove from old installations. Replaced this and a 15A carrier serving a 30A circuit with some spares from an old board I'd removed from a customer property

Rpa07 · Apr 17, 2018

And charged them handsomely we trust @SparkyChick, hmmm?

SparkyChick said:
Here's a nice reminder of why you should always try and isolate fuses before pulling them

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Thankfully I noticed the second red dot was missing and the screw was loose.

Oh... and it's also a timely reminder about why you should keep a few bits of junk you remove from old installations. Replaced this and a 15A carrier serving a 30A circuit with some spares from an old board I'd removed from a customer property

Very hard to know when to stop collecting for ‘when I need one’ - until then I’ll keep collecting!

dksanders · Apr 17, 2018

Rpa07 said:
And charged them handsomely we trust @SparkyChick, hmmm?

Very hard to know when to stop collecting for ‘when I need one’ - until then I’ll keep collecting!

I use the 4 year rule, if i've not touched/used in in the last 4 years, then I never will and out it goes, usually to a free cycle group or charity.

SparkyChick · Apr 18, 2018

Rpa07 said:
And charged them handsomely we trust @SparkyChick, hmmm?

Very hard to know when to stop collecting for ‘when I need one’ - until then I’ll keep collecting!

It started as a call out for an existing customer because they lost power to the cooker. I think what happened was a bad neutral connection in the cooker switch resulted in surges or something that had slowly cooked the fuse wire causing it to fail. Quick re-termination of that and change the fuse carriers and the job has yielded contact details for another family member with an electrical fault, a request for a quote to replace that old fuse box which carries with it the need to do something about other parts of the installation (like replace an elderly VOELCB) and the possibility of another checking out the British Legion in Newport. All in all quite a productive call out

dksanders · Apr 18, 2018

Attended a rented house today where they'd had half the lights not working for the last few weeks, ever since the new shower had been installed over the bath.......

pirate · Apr 18, 2018

Oops! Nice wall light!
Nice pic, SparkyChic! I love pulling fuses...only thing I can pull these days...

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