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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telectrix · Mar 18, 2021

my money's on the FCU being there first. and those 3.5mm heads at 2 p.m. do my head in.

littlespark · Mar 18, 2021

telectrix said:
my money's on the FCU being there first. and those 3.5mm heads at 2 p.m. do my head in.

yeh, but the screw holding the fuse in is at 10 oclock

pc1966 · Mar 18, 2021

littlespark said:
yeh, but the screw holding the fuse in is at 10 oclock

2-10-2 some cryptic message?

Dave OCD · Mar 18, 2021

Here's an old DNO cast iron cutout/splitter box serving a few Housing Association houses,[from the late'50s/early 60s?] the cable must be close to 50mm diameter. I was working in one of these places that's been privately bought doing a CU change. Not putting that picture in the 'dodgy' thread though. ?

Fazz711 · Mar 18, 2021

Found inside a DB at work.
That makes six + another six in the trunking under DBs.

dodger421 · Mar 19, 2021

I’m not sure if this was the electrical contractors or the internal bodge squad (aka the projects team), but this was fitted in the last few months as part of a new working area to feed an external container with a double socket, and a few lights in SY. There’s a heater element in an IBC that seems to be supplied from somewhere else too.

Brand new Contactum enclosure with RCD main switch. Buying Contactum MCB’s at the same time was clearly much more difficult than butchering the enclosure to fit the Crabtree.
I’ve not fully traced it out but I think the D16 feeds an RCD double socket in the container, because whoever installed it hasn’t heard of selectivity either!

EDIT: I forgot to add the SWA supply from the other side of the plant is glanded onto a rotary isolator that’s then glanded to the Contactum enclosure, presumably with galv conduit but it’s basically flush so probably not given the quality on display. I’ve not opened anything up, mostly out of fear that things can only get worse underneath the veneer of crap.

Dustydazzler · Mar 19, 2021

nibbled out the cover of board with side cutters , very creative solution

littlespark · Mar 19, 2021

Dustydazzler said:
nibbled out the cover of board with side cutters , very creative solution

side cutters?
Looks like he used his teeth!

(I got really confused there. You must have been editing your post as I pressed reply... thinking “that’s not what it says???”)

MrPupsi · Mar 19, 2021

On the same note, brand new board, couldn’t be bothered to get the correct fitting MCB.

Landlord said he had an EICR done a couple years ago and this wasn’t picked up then!

pc1966 · Mar 19, 2021

MrPupsi said:
On the same note, brand new board, couldn’t be bothered to get the correct fitting MCB.

Landlord said he had an EICR done a couple years ago and this wasn’t picked up then!

FFS it is not like they are hard to get or obsolete ones, I would imagine a 5 min trip to local Screwfix!

Also looks like the RCD's N fixing has been bent as screw appears no longer lined up to the access hole.

telectrix · Mar 19, 2021

pc1966 said:
FFS it is not like they are hard to get or obsolete ones, I would imagine a 5 min trip to local Screwfix!

Also looks like the RCD's N fixing has been bent as screw appears no longer lined up to the access hole.

do you mean the L? it's the bent busbar that's causing that.

Dustydazzler · Mar 19, 2021

Such a shame on a brand new install when the equipment is mutilated like that.

telectrix · Mar 19, 2021

as if it's difficult to get a BG MCB.

pc1966 · Mar 19, 2021

telectrix said:
do you mean the L? it's the bent busbar that's causing that.

Doh, yes! Posting before enough coffee this morning.

pc1966 · Mar 19, 2021

telectrix said:
as if it's difficult to get a BG MCB.

Step 1 - search for "BG MCB" on line
Step 2 - click on first link for Screwfix
Step 3 - order on web site, or write down number and get one locally for £3.69

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