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 24, 2021

just replace all the proteus stuff with hager.

ipf · Mar 24, 2021

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Bloomin' Australian sparkies coming over here and taking our work

Well.... at least the two blanks are the right way up!!!

Darkwood · Mar 24, 2021

This is one I loaded in 2014, it feeds a fabric cutter machine, they said it stopped working... This is my world on a daily basis

SparkySy · Mar 24, 2021

Good luck with that one! I can't imagine that you left it in that state, God there are some vandals in that place!

Darkwood · Mar 24, 2021

It was 2014 and I basically told them I will build a new panel or walk, it fell a little under the safety requirements I would expect of a machine, believe it or not I found the problem straight away and it was clear they had had other sparkies out to try resolve it, I decided not to repair it though.

Darkwood · Mar 24, 2021

This is another one from my archive, this is a paxolin insulated support in a old 3 phase dist board, the bolts are across 3 phase and due to water ingress you can see where the arcing from one bolt to the next created a carbon path which took out the power to the building.

I made a temp' repair job to bring the short back up to a respectable value before quoting for a new board.
These are many years old and just posting for those that don't see the effects of arc damage on this level.

The bottom photo has cropped itself for some reason, it simply shows the temp repair grinding out the carbon and getting it up to 20Mohms.

Darkwood · Mar 24, 2021

This one is from about 7 yrs ago, I have little recollection of this job but it is headed 'Blown buried supply pyro', this is not my handy work as I don't do domestic boards, what amazes me here is there are only 3 circuits and it looks like there are at least 20 in there given the state of the wiring.

mattg4321 · Mar 24, 2021

3 circuits or 5?!

Don’t start that debate again

SparkySy · Mar 24, 2021

A couple of recent shots of lashery I have come across!

Darkwood · Mar 24, 2021

The good old pumped in cavity wall insulation, can't deny it but we had a good spate of these boards a decade or so ago before they halted the method.

SparkySy · Mar 24, 2021

When I took the lid off the damn stuff went everywhere, can't be good having that much polystyrene close to the pvc can't be good either!

Dustydazzler · Mar 24, 2021

mattg4321 said:
3 circuits or 5?!

Don’t start that debate again

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DJAndy · Mar 24, 2021

This buried weatherproof box might be why your RCD keeps tipping.

Phil L · Mar 24, 2021

DJAndy said:
This buried weatherproof box might be why your RCD keeps tipping.

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Couple of paper towels it will be fine

ElectricSeamus · Mar 24, 2021

DIY Dave.

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