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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DPG · Jan 28, 2023

littlespark said:
No. That was the electrician.

Easier to snap apart?

Never liked using them as a fixing hole, unless it’s a really thin screw.
The thread cutting into plastic could get too close to a live terminal.

Agree. It really needs to be a machine screw and nut so that there is no risk of that happening

Dustydazzler · Jan 28, 2023

I have come across connectors completely split open when sparks have driven big wood screws into the hole in the connector to fix it to something. if you really feel the need to anchor the connector to the box then a dob of super glue would be better imo

ipf · Jan 28, 2023

westward10 said:
Connector blocks have holes in the middle of them for a reason.

Drain holes?

mainline · Jan 29, 2023

Can you come and have a look, I think my consumer unit has got a bit warm.

DPG · Jan 29, 2023

mainline said:
Can you come and have a look, I think my consumer unit has got a bit warm.
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Jeez that's a bad one. What's the verdict? Apart from that it's knackered obviously!

Julie. · Jan 29, 2023

mainline said:
Can you come and have a look, I think my consumer unit has got a bit warm.
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Pretty obvious why that's gone wrong!

They have used the old wiring colours, and haven't put a notice of colours to one or more version of the regs!

Missing that notice, and there was bound to be a problem!!

LewisM · Jan 29, 2023

Looks like the fusehead had melted?

littlespark · Jan 29, 2023

Can we make consumer units out of the same material as that meter?
Its virtually unscathed

123 · Jan 29, 2023

littlespark said:
Can we make consumer units out of the same material as that meter?
Its virtually unscathed

In fairness the consumer unit main switch/rcd's/mcb's all look fine also...it looks like the supply cable is the issue, not sure why it's not just a set of metre tails or quite what's got wrong there

Julie. · Jan 29, 2023

littlespark said:
Can we make consumer units out of the same material as that meter?
Its virtually unscathed

Err plastic?

Perhaps we should see the dangers of metal cu's and move over to plastic.

Seemed to work last time we did it.

Old plastic (bakelite) - dangerous let's move to metal.

Old metal - dangerous let's move to plastic

Old plastic - dangerous let's move to metal

So when's the next switch over planned for?

Fazz711 · Jan 29, 2023

Julie. said:
Err plastic?

Perhaps we should see the dangers of metal cu's and move over to plastic.

Seemed to work last time we did it.

Old plastic (bakelite) - dangerous let's move to metal.

Old metal - dangerous let's move to plastic

Old plastic - dangerous let's move to metal

So when's the next switch over planned for?

Make them out of asbestos lol

mainline · Jan 29, 2023

DPG said:
Jeez that's a bad one. What's the verdict? Apart from that it's knackered obviously!

Dno called out to renew the head and move it outside, they were very lucky that the place never burnt down.

brianmoooore · Jan 29, 2023

Last time I had that scenario (DNO head burst into flames and set fire to CUs directly above it), DNO sent an invoice to the customer for replacing the head, claiming that the source of the fire was one of the CUs.

mainline · Jan 29, 2023

LewisM said:
Looks like the fusehead had melted?

The feed to the head looped down the side of the cu, when they overheated they melted the side of it.
Having an 8.5kw electric shower along with 9kw electric central heating didn't help.

mainline · Jan 29, 2023

brianmoooore said:
Last time I had that scenario (DNO head burst into flames and set fire to CUs directly above it), DNO sent an invoice to the customer for replacing the head, claiming that the source of the fire was one of the CUs.

Basically the same scenario here, dno moved to an outside cabinet at no cost.