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.

mg_smile:

ipf · Jan 16, 2019

I wondered where all the driver bits were disappearing to!!!

Pete999 · Jan 17, 2019

ipf said:
I wondered where all the driver bits were disappearing to!!!

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Blown to Bits, sorry, have seen a live .22 cartridge used as a fuse once.

Pete999 · Jan 17, 2019

ipf said:
I wondered where all the driver bits were disappearing to!!!

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Blown to Bits, sorry, have seen a live .22 cartridge used as a fuse once.

Misterbarlow · Jan 17, 2019

Misterbarlow · Jan 17, 2019

DPG · Jan 17, 2019

Could have waited till the last digit was zero.

123 · Jan 17, 2019

Another reason to isolate the lighting circuit before working on any light fittings!

ipf · Jan 17, 2019

123 said:
Another reason to isolate the lighting circuit before working on any light fittings!
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Did his Mrs call you out when she found him on the floor?...…….in the dark.

telectrix · Jan 17, 2019

123 said:
Another reason to isolate the lighting circuit before working on any light fittings!
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what cretin did that?

Silly Sausage · Jan 17, 2019

123 said:
Another reason to isolate the lighting circuit before working on any light fittings!
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Agreed.
There's a good reason why you should avoid working LIVE!

johnduffell · Jan 17, 2019

Archy Styrigg said:
Agreed.
There's a good reason why you should avoid working LIVE!

that's horrific everything out the window there in terms of safety. whoever fitted that was probably dead proud of working out the loop in/out part, either that or trial and error at work

Rpa07 · Jan 17, 2019

johnduffell said:
that's horrific everything out the window there in terms of safety. whoever fitted that was probably dead proud of working out the loop in/out part, either that or trial and error at work

So close though! Looks like a twin red for the switch wire so that flylead one hole over and everyone would have been happy, even his wife! But - because he got it wrong, he gets no cocoa!

SparkyChick · Jan 18, 2019

123 said:
Another reason to isolate the lighting circuit before working on any light fittings!
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I spent ages looking at that thinking "Why??? What's wrong with it???" I've just looked again and seen it.

OMG!!!

SparkyChick · Jan 18, 2019

So got called out today... cooker circuit tripping the RCD. Turns out, it's cooker, sockets and extractor hood on a 16A breaker, with washing machine on one, gas hob, electric oven.

Get's it down to a L-E short on the cable from the CU to the SFCU that has the hob and oven connected to it, yes... both of them on one. Turns out there are two sets of cables in the conduit, great I think, pull some slack through and use the other L... except that has a L-E short as well. Ok, use the neutral and sleeve it... Couldn't get any movement on it and it's snipped off close to the wall at the far end... nightmare.

But check out this quality work...

Lovely bit of arson there from a gas fitter.

The conclusion I've drawn is (because apparently the RCD tripping has been going on for a while getting more and more frequent) is that some plum has hammered/damaged the conduit and consequently the cables and it's finally given up. Would have been grand if I could have pulled the slack through, but as it is got to run a new cable and make it safe. What a bloody lash up.