Little Things Done Well

GBDamo · Aug 29, 2019

As title, show us your little uns.

[ElectriciansForums.net] Little Things Done Well

Just remember the smaller it is the less chance of non-conformances.

ipf · Aug 29, 2019

These two are proper neat.....10 yards apart, one a grinder, one a welder.

Dustydazzler · Aug 29, 2019

Nah

Proper neat is when you solder the live wire directly to the live prong

westward10 · Aug 29, 2019

This was a builders extension, I cut the plug off also then watched from afar.

static zap · Aug 29, 2019

Ok -Oversized cable , bound and crushed.
(and may years worth of other bad habits)
Honest Joe photo. (non ideal

photography)

GBDamo · Aug 29, 2019

Dustydazzler said:
I was once on a small domestic site where
A builder supplied the decorators with a 240v real lead of which the plug top had no top.
The painter plugged it straight in getting a wicked shock , then his mate tried to unplug it while it was still live getting himself a wicked bolt...

I kid you not , this is absolutely true

Soon as I saw what had happened I cut the plug top straight off

You'd have been better off cutting their hands off, for their own good.
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static zap said:
Ok -Oversized cable , bound and crushed.
(and may years worth of other bad habits)
Honest Joe photo. (non ideal View attachment 51738photography)

Not a bad effort, is this going to turn i to an "I can wire a plug me" thread?
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telectrix said:
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Look I know I'm a short course shyster but I worked that one out already.

Timbo · Aug 29, 2019

This was on the charging lead of a patient lifting hoist. It wasn't charging! The original moulded plug had been ripped off and this was fitted by the handyman.

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And here's another one, same care home a few months later.

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Went to check a bed at another care home, wasn't working......

littlespark · Aug 29, 2019

Dustydazzler said:
I was once on a small domestic site where
A builder supplied the decorators with a 240v real lead of which the plug top had no top.
The painter plugged it straight in getting a wicked shock , then his mate tried to unplug it while it was still live getting himself a wicked bolt...

I kid you not , this is absolutely true

Soon as I saw what had happened I cut the plug top straight off

...And that's why your pliers have a handy wire stripping notch in the cutters.

Isolated power, unplugged THEN cut the plug top off.

re, the OP photo.... that neutral wire is way too long. Should be roughly halfway between the length of the earth and live.

Timbo · Aug 29, 2019

Then found this on the floor. I kid you not, just couldn't make it up.

Simon47 · Aug 29, 2019

Stuff like that in a care home doesn't surprise me at all. Did you RIDDOR them ?

Deleted member 105166 · Aug 29, 2019

Dustydazzler said:
I was once on a small domestic site where
A builder supplied the decorators with a 240v real lead of which the plug top had no top.
The painter plugged it straight in getting a wicked shock , then his mate tried to unplug it while it was still live getting himself a wicked bolt...

I kid you not , this is absolutely true

Soon as I saw what had happened I cut the plug top straight off

I bet they stripped the flex back and were using it again on bare wires in no time.

BruvDunk · Aug 29, 2019

Local snooker club had an extension lead with a plugtop on both ends and the hoover had a trailing socket on the end of the lead

littlespark · Aug 29, 2019

I've seen an extension lead like that before. A old farmer had one for his generator for when the power went out.
He would plug one end into the genny, the other into a socket in his house, thus giving him power.

Simon47 · Aug 30, 2019

Yes, using a widowmaker for a genny is commonplace, but as an extension - not very. Though years ago I spotted one running the till in the local chemist - no-one seemed at all bothered when I mentioned it.

Deleted member 105166 · Aug 30, 2019

Simon47 said:
Yes, using a widowmaker for a genny is commonplace, but as an extension - not very.

Hopefully not "commonplace", although indeed you do see them from time to time.
Most people are completely ignorant of the dangers of their widowmaker leads, but equally most will listen and learn if you take the time out to explain.
I think it's because the 13A plugtop is a familiar everyday item whereas the 16A ceeform isn't, that they don't immediately see anything wrong with the example I've pictured here, but if you suggest two 13A plugtops cabled together, the appreciation of danger usually registers with a layman.

littlespark · Aug 30, 2019

Yes. A “widow maker” lead. I’d forgot what they called it

Little Things Done Well

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