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.

mg_smile:

ipf · Feb 20, 2024

High level supply, above ceiling, picked up for office LED panel lighting. One faulty. Loads of LSF on the ceiling, nearly strung myself up when a tile was removed.

leesrubberroom · Feb 25, 2024

Kamikaze said:
Poor man’s chandelier

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I think this might be considered stylish in some circles

pc1966 · Feb 25, 2024

Back to my old friend's place again. Turns out there was no earthing of the armour! So the car lift had been really dangerous for years! I put a gland on so now it is earthed, but left it switched off anyway. As I finished doing that I knocked an envelope nailed to the wall, and lo! A "new" 20s gland fell out from some perished plastic bag. So clearly he had the gland for a long time with the view to fixing it but never got round to it

In the process I took a look inside and its a bit grim:

Yes, those are bits of fuse wire in what should be the location of bolted HRC fuses in the Dorman-Smith switched-fuse, and indeed that is white for L2 showing it dates pre-1966, and I agree the CPC to the Wylex box below is far too small.

The MEM box of rewirable fuses has asbestos flash-pads, so a problem for ultimate disposal, and it has way too much connected to it with little or no regard to adequate protection. It is most certainly a rip-out and replace the lot job once the estate is finalised.

mainline · Feb 26, 2024

Can you put some smoke alarms in the big farmhouse.

And btw watch your head

SJD · Mar 7, 2024

Removing a room of downlight converters, not only did they convert the large ceiling holes, but also the connections ... by means of the MR16 lampholder!

pc1966 · Mar 8, 2024

SJD said:
Removing a room of downlight converters, not only did they convert the large ceiling holes, but also the connections ... by means of the MR16 lampholder!

Well it is creative, you could say that!

pc1966 · Mar 11, 2024

Creative adaptation of a 13A plug:

Avo Mk8 · Mar 11, 2024

pc1966 said:
Creative adaptation of a 13A plug:
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Top notch job

pirate · Mar 12, 2024

nicebutdim said:
There's never anything good to be found at the end of a length of orange flex

My neighbour's neck would be a good start...

Greenarmy · Mar 13, 2024

nicebutdim said:
There's never anything good to be found at the end of a length of orange flex.

I have never realised before, but that is very true

Darkwood · Mar 13, 2024

Wow - this thread is still getting plenty content, at this rate it will be the first thread to hit 1million views soon.

Not bad for a Electrical trade forum I must say so myself

Pete999 · Mar 14, 2024

Greenarmy said:
I have never realised before, but that is very true

LewisM · Mar 15, 2024

Fans going to be fun to change

brianmoooore · Mar 15, 2024

LewisM said:
Fans going to be fun to change

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Not too bad, as long as you can release the two clamp bands holding the motor/fan assembly in place, and you are replacing with the same model.
Motor and fan just slides out, leaving the frame and pipes undisturbed.

timhoward · Mar 19, 2024

I turned up to change an outside light. This was the supply cable as I found it and the photograph to explain to customer why it needed to be a bigger job. Needless to say I took it out of service and ran a new cable.
When the place was rewired I think no one fancied tackling the slate roof to replace it.

Twin (without earth) and tinned copper conductors, so it's probably sat here in its buckle clips since the early 60's

bill01803 · Mar 20, 2024

More SY use, apparently only six years old

Dan · Mar 21, 2024

GO EFFIN ON LADS AND LADIES!!!!!

This single thread alone has nearly 1 million views (956,000+ right this second)

Well done people, for making such a lovely forum that's so so busy it's ace.

Thank you.

littlespark · Mar 21, 2024

We could post up a “calendar girls” style naked photo shoot to get those views up.

Dan · Mar 21, 2024

G'wan then. You first.

oscar21 · Mar 23, 2024

We are currently re-wiring a run down house, just your average 3 bed end terrace. Everything inside it electrically pointed to it being some sort of old commercial business, EM lights dotted about for one. but according to the new owner it wasn't, he said an old bloke lived there that was a bit mad, nothing shows up on Streeview either showing it anything but a house. I could have taken many more photos of things but this is the sort of stuff he got up to apparently.

That one is my favourite, screwed to the underneath of a floorboard, fed in alarm cable so maybe some sort of booby trap.

Secuirty light switching

Cables everywhere, these were for the CCTV

Backdoor

All that was left of the shed, it was full of electronic stuff apparently, would have loved to have a look around it but it was gone before we turned up.

And lastly a bit of switch wiring

Looks normal but it was years old and wired about 30 years ago or more, those cables are twin and earths, not 3 cores with the grey cut out. Where the hell did he get black and brown cable from?

LewisM · Mar 23, 2024

Another lug heatshrank too low meaning one got super hot and burnt the heat shrink off

Before

After

littlespark · Mar 24, 2024

Saw this for sale and soon realised the seller had the terminology wrong…

Battery… not “wireless”…. Or does it need to be connected to local Wi-Fi or mobile data??

brianmoooore · Mar 24, 2024

Not the current normal usage of "wireless", but if it can be described as cordless (an imported US term?), it surely can alternatively be described as wireless.