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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Mike Johnson · Jul 16, 2021

DPG said:
My two prong tester (Kewtech) will also work in single prong mode, but with reduced functionality.

Never occurred to me to try it in single prong mode, will try it now? yep with no indication of voltage, but does show phase connected, so we both had one all along and did not know it. ?

static zap · Jul 16, 2021

Mike Johnson said:
would my neon screwdriver comply.

It will soon tell you about your points of contact , if you transport it in a sandy wet pocket. Builder style.

ruston · Jul 16, 2021

static zap said:
It will soon tell you about your points of contact , if you transport it in a sandy wet pocket. Builder style.

So it definitely would not be a Static Zap.

loz2754 · Jul 16, 2021

This has already been discussed.
The new Megger MET 1000 has a one contact voltage indicator setting.
Gas engineers use them to test pipes and stuff.

ipf · Jul 16, 2021

DPG said:
My two prong tester (Kewtech) will also work in single prong mode, but with reduced functionality.

Mine too, at least you can tell if switches are live........when the earths have been cut back.?

ferg · Jul 16, 2021

Same with my Fluke. No indication of voltage but will yell at you and light up to show that it is live.

pc1966 · Jul 22, 2021

In the car park of the local Screwfix, but predates their occupation of the site.Some disused 12V chargers (box has a transformer and PCB in it), but look at the quality of the SY cable installation! Now it is opaque and split due to UV. There must have been around a dozen of them in total.

ipf · Jul 22, 2021

pc1966 said:
In the car park of the local Screwfix, but predates their occupation of the site.Some disused 12V chargers (box has a transformer and PCB in it), but look at the quality of the SY cable installation! Now it is opaque and split due to UV. There must have been around a dozen of them in total.View attachment 87907

Wouldn't surprise me if some prize pi$$ocks think they're for recharging their car batteries.....maybe even Screwfix customers. ?

SparkySy · Jul 23, 2021

Been helping a friend out who has just moved into a 1970's built and bodged ever since house. Lovely consumer unit, sockets in the bedroom not working, (lost neutral) on closer inspection as the cable was only about 2foot long, this was the cause hidden away in all the gash wires looks like it was snipped off for God knows what reason when the con unit was upgraded, no faults found on the cable! Final one was ripping out the kitchen bodgery a rake of spurs off spurs and a cooker hood that went dead with the cooker, removing the isolator face and outlet plate gave no answers so out came the chisel and hello what have we here then!

SparkySy · Jul 23, 2021

Yesterday's shenanigans, digger driver pulling out roots and oops, only about 2inches under the topsoil, did have tape but directly on top of the cable, chap didn't stand a chance of not hitting it! Quick joint in the woods and off to the next one!

nicebutdim · Jul 23, 2021

That Volex junction box was a nice find - might be one for @Lucien Nunes!

Dartlec · Jul 25, 2021

Called out to a cottage on a farm over the weekend where the previous occupant (a "maintenance" engineer) had been fiddling over the years...

Complete basketcase of an install, with one 16A radial socket circuit feeding 2 bedrooms, kitchen and lounge - with various cables cut for no apparent reasons behind sockets and cabling joined randomly up in the loft.

RCD protected (up front) in a Hager board, so I guess I can't complain too much...

Found this joy in the loft though- Running power and lighting to a new conservatory, in new cabling...

This fed by a single 2.5 twin and earth on a 16A MCB from the main board. At least it was in the loft where only the squirrel sized rats can get at it....

freddo · Jul 28, 2021

Lighting contactors installed butted up to one another. They are all working, but buzz loudly. They must be really cooked inside. The installation is mirrored on the opposite side of this building, those were installed with a 1 module gap between each contactor, those all work quietly with no signs of overheating.

freddo · Jul 28, 2021

Cable theft at the same site as above. 500mm2 AWAs connected to the LV side of a 2MVA transformer, the 11Kv VCB was still in the service position and simply tripped, nothing stopping anyone from closing it again.

Paralleled 300mm2 AWAs

All that remains of a 4000A supply to a building, quadrupled 630mm2 AWAs. I measured up the cable run, the cost to purchase new cable came to just under £100K. This 3MVA transformer was still energised when I took this photo.

It's not often terminal boxes are large enough to fit inside...

After some inspection, It would appear that over 30 tonnes of cable has been stolen from this site.

ipf · Jul 28, 2021

Neat job with the 10 singles...

At least the glands are still in place for replacement?

Seriously, though, there are some to$$ers around. Deserve a frying but they really know what they're doing.

Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

Darkwood

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ruston

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loz2754

ipf

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ferg

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pc1966

ipf

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SparkySy

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SparkySy

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nicebutdim

Dartlec

freddo

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