A friend of mine recently purchased a house with a Swimming pool AAAAH everybodies dream house ?
his wife ws less than pleased when I told her to get my team in and flatten it
if the bits I could see on a cursory examination were that bad imagine the bits I could not see
I was vindicated, it has...
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but when I click on it, it takes me to a dead link thing ?
has the site been compromised ?
or am I just stupid
well its the only part of the lighting circuit that has not got its own fuse
I was taught 40 years ago that the flex int he event of the lampholder shorting will act as a fuse
Its still taught now
but of course those people may possibly be wrong ?
A while back whilst connecting a bathroom fan via a 3 pole isolator, I noticed that it was only rated at 3A, whereas the MCB for the lighting circuit would normally be rated at 6A
I know that pendant drops become the fusible link in that part of the system, but it occured to me that many of...
Its called Life son
often people tell you how much dosh they make for doing very little, but they dont always tell the truth
I work long hours, dont pay much tax as I keep my charges down, but I have a quality of life and nice clients, and I get time to wander around Europe on my motorcycle
and...
I must admit I prefer an old fashioned testmeter for lots of my work, I keep one in my toolbox as I dont always keep the MFT with me ( space)
however i buy a new one every years from my local wholesaler usually about 25 quid with decent leads and to save to bother of calibrating it I either...
actually they can save your life
recently I was asked to remove some flourescent fittings in an attic, the property had a partial rewire, new CU bonding earth electrode and a lighting circuit with CPC fitted by an aprroved electrican
(I did not want to do the work due to the distance involved)
I...
Nigel
that is soem big house
40 metres
perhaps a butler would be the thing !!
had a similiar problem a few years back, we got round it by using a 240v bell push ( quite a chunky thing with a Neon) this clicked a relay in the main house and I used that to trigger soem door bells linked to a...
I got a set and love them
but then being 300 years old with shakey hands it makes life easier
however I noticed several people quoted Ebay
check the prices in the local wholesalers, I bought them for muchless than advertised on ebay
it seems to be set up for the cant be bothered to get of the...
I drop mine off to Denmans and they send it away
costs me 60 quid
but they replace the batteries, adn fully test it and clean it
I get a 5 page report on it
I am concerned that those el cheapo meter calib days might be cutting corners
my life might depend on poor judgement ?
I much prefer to...
they were excellent cars my old firm had a fleer of the estates they ran for years and when the firm sold them off other staf members bought them to use as works vans
aha the good old days
I recall driving an A35 van
no heater
no interior light
it had a cycle headlight on the front seat
and it...
nope its a Morris Oxford series 5 just clicked up to 86K from new I am only the second owner
always been serviced its a long stroke engine so dates back to WW2 speed is not an option
but it happily cruises on the Strada at 55MPH
it diod have a little corrosion but then its Italian designed so...
well I own a car from the sixties in fact I have owned it for 22 years
its never once let me down taken me all over europe on just regular servicing
plus if it does go wrong you can fix it
what you dont fit cant break
modern cars are an improvement and run for terrific mileages without much care...
I dont think the russkies would have let them get away with porkies !!
even in those days we had sceptics
trouble is the USof A does have more than its fair share of nutcases
I was once giving a talk about wartime missions to a group of schooldchildren ( i used to give talks on Britain at war) I...
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