Biggest mistake as a sparky

Old Jag Lover · Feb 5, 2014

Time to man up confess your sins,what are your worst disasters for me,2.First drilling through a bundle of 6 bundled pyros in a large office block as an apprentice,my then boss said 3 ft from the wall,not true it was 3 metres,3pyros 4000Amp risers using ESR system second 3 2000A risers DC 3 wire for elevators in Sydney lots of downtown didn't get the AC till 1979.Second,sending a guy to replace a contactor in a Ward Leonard setup said look here the diagram does not agree 6 and 9 are reversed,told him don't worry factory mistake,no no no,resulting in no field on output motor,causing birdcaging,causing catastrophic rotor failure repair costs to us,100000 bucks.ouch.

pepparz · Feb 5, 2014

Yeah..........

pepparz · Feb 5, 2014

Y dont u change ur name from DPG to daz, then you don't have to keep on typing it at the end of your messages?

Darkwood · Feb 5, 2014

I grabbed an old feed pipe to rip it out of the wall it was only 2ft long thus to utilise the hole .. a bit of what i thought was water ran out down by arm and on my hands ... within 30seconds i was under the emergency shower down unit it was an old feed pipe to a cleaning machine with concentrated caustic liquid in it .... apparently it should have been removed and disposed of with the machine but got missed and left... im glad i had my head above it or could have been a lot worse.

You never expect to get chemical burns pulling an old stainless inch pipe out of a wall especially when you are unaware of the history of what used to be there!... sometimes other peoples cock ups are the most dangerous to us.

DPG · Feb 5, 2014

pepparz said:
Y dont u change ur name from DPG to daz, then you don't have to keep on typing it at the end of your messages?

My name is already Daz, but thanks. Daz

pepparz · Feb 5, 2014

Now u know why it was stainless

MDJ · Feb 5, 2014

DPG said:
My name is already Daz, but thanks. Daz

My name is Mike. MDJ

telectrix · Feb 5, 2014

thought it was mark. :sifone::sifone:

pepparz · Feb 5, 2014

my name is fullstop.

Paul.M · Feb 5, 2014

My name is, my name is, my name is Slimshady.

GLENNSPARK · Feb 5, 2014

DPG said:
My name is already Daz, but thanks. Daz

[ElectriciansForums.net] Biggest mistake as a sparky

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Guest55 · Feb 5, 2014

[QUOTEDaz]Daz[/QUOTE]

daz sayz daz.

well thats the formalities out the way then.
i like it , succinct and direct , this guy knows who he is.
:-D

GLENNSPARK · Feb 5, 2014

biff55 said:
[QUOTEDaz]Daz

daz sayz daz.

well thats the formalities out the way then.
i like it , succinct and direct , this guy knows who he is.
:-D[/QUOTE]

well theres a lot in here that struggle with the term ADS so god help em if their name is more than 3 letters long.....

Silly Sausage · Feb 5, 2014

DPG said:
My name is already Daz, but thanks. Daz

Shouldn't it be Surf, seeing as you spend time on the web?

ipf · Feb 5, 2014

There must be somebody called Dick.

Old Jag Lover · Feb 5, 2014

Engineers are ########,had a job,twenty flats,meters arranged in outdoor metal panels in a lane told him first that violates the six tap rule for meters need 4 incomer consumer mains from transformers
only two,then this lane is very narrow im an engineer youre just a dumb pipe bender and a former criminal so do what youre told,2 months later along comes a garbage truck car illegally parked in squeezing past they ripped off all the pans blacked out the whole street.