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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Dartlec · Jun 16, 2021

Dustydazzler said:
Great Advertisement for the new fandango arc fault circuit intergrated devices

Except that looks like possibly a lighting circuit, which wouldn't need one in the proposed amendment if I recall?

Dustydazzler · Jun 16, 2021

Dartlec said:
Except that looks like possibly a lighting circuit, which wouldn't need one in the proposed amendment if I recall?

be on the subsequent amendment

pc1966 · Jun 17, 2021

Strange, as in my limited experience of things the only two persistent arcing circuits I have seen were both lights!

Nothing spectacular but the end of wires had fractured and I guess the old 60W bulbs drew enough current to keep a stable small arc going, you could here a slight noise and the last cm or so of the insulation was toast and the end of conductor oddly pointed.

I guess the actual power of such a small current-limited arc was small enough that it did not trigger anything more serious like a fire in nearby materials.

pc1966 · Jun 17, 2021

Dustydazzler said:
be on the subsequent amendment

Got to keep them profits up!

Mike Johnson · Jun 17, 2021

pc1966 said:
Got to keep them profits up!

And the legislators in Champers.

ipf · Jun 17, 2021

pc1966 said:
Strange, as in my limited experience of things the only two persistent arcing circuits I have seen were both lights!

Nothing spectacular but the end of wires had fractured and I guess the old 60W bulbs drew enough current to keep a stable small arc going, you could here a slight noise and the last cm or so of the insulation was toast and the end of conductor oddly pointed.

I guess the actual power of such a small current-limited arc was small enough that it did not trigger anything more serious like a fire in nearby materials.

Not in CU, of course, but shower switches, especially pulls, always seem pretty regular when it comes to arcing/burning.
Fishy smells in bathrooms quite often get misconstrued, I suppose. ?

Dartlec · Jun 17, 2021

Kitchen fitter strikes again...

No idea what makes someone think - I don't need to connect this earth to the terminal on this socket, so it will be safer if I CUT IT BACK.....

Maybe confused by the original socket being earthed by conduit, but ffs....

Dustydazzler · Jun 17, 2021

I regularly come across builders wiring with the cpc cut off ,

my only thinking is they think the bare wire is some sort of ‘spare’ wire

ipf · Jun 17, 2021

Dartlec said:
Kitchen fitter strikes again...

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No idea what makes someone think - I don't need to connect this earth to the terminal on this socket, so it will be safer if I CUT IT BACK.....

Maybe confused by the original socket being earthed by conduit, but ffs....

Brain dead to$$ers who think they know it all.........not in a shower, is it? ?

Dustydazzler · Jun 17, 2021

At least they used 2.5

the other day I found a brand new kitchen with sockets wired in 1mm

dodger421 · Jun 17, 2021

Dustydazzler said:
I regularly come across builders wiring with the cpc cut off ,

my only thinking is they think the bare wire is some sort of ‘spare’ wire

It’s the bit they put in for stripping the sheath. Serves no other purpose, if it did the manufacturer would insulate it like the other two.

Better put a smiley in here in case someone thinks I’m being serious

Dartlec · Jun 17, 2021

ipf said:
Brain dead to$$ers who think they know it all.........not in a shower, is it? ?

Thankfully 'only' in a kitchen.... This has been the worst EICR of the crop, but I'm finally more or less there, thank god....

littlespark · Jun 17, 2021

That really is a special kind of incompetence.

Ive just started on a kitchen refurb, and knocking the tiles off found 2 x covered over old sockets with live joints just taped up. But at least the cpc was connected!

ipf · Jun 17, 2021

dodger421 said:
It’s the bit they put in for stripping the sheath. Serves no other purpose, if it did the manufacturer would insulate it like the other two.

Better put a smiley in here in case someone thinks I’m being serious

'No earth sleeving handy so what's the point of it?'

LewisM · Jun 18, 2021

Mike Johnson · Jun 18, 2021

That's terrible, no grommet on the back box. ?

loz2754 · Jun 18, 2021

LewisM said:
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Never seen that before.

littlespark · Jun 18, 2021

Ahh, the cores have been tinned with solder??
I though it was just old alu stranded cables

loz2754 · Jun 18, 2021

littlespark said:
Ahh, the cores have been tinned with solder??
I though it was just old alu stranded cables

Not just tinned with solder, an actual soldered joint.

LewisM · Jun 18, 2021

Matey reckons it was like that for 40+ years his mate who was a marine engineer did it for him

Pete999 · Jun 18, 2021

Mike Johnson said:
That's terrible, no grommet on the back box. ?

IF the cables are fixed so they don't move ,then a grommet is not required, I believe,

Mike Johnson · Jun 18, 2021

Pete999 said:
IF the cables are fixed so they don't move ,then a grommet is not required, I believe,

It was meant as a humorous comment, taking into account the amount wrong in that particular installation, good grief Pete must have been a heavy night.

Pete999 · Jun 18, 2021

Mike Johnson said:
It was meant as a humorous comment, taking into account the amount wrong in that particular installation, good grief Pete must have been a heavy night.

Not heavy just a normal evening just like the nights in Bath during it's ,

Pete999 · Jun 18, 2021

Pete999 said:
Not heavy just a normal evening just like the nights in Bath during it's heyday , don;t even try asking O value my existence get the picture?,

Julie. · Jun 18, 2021

Pete999 said:
Not heavy just a normal evening just like the nights in Bath during it's ,

Bath nights still a special evening then.

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