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    The big difference in the electric terminology and installation regulations and practice in each country!

    I've brought them back from Europe for about the last 30 years, but now, as a result of Covid restrictions and now an extremely aged dog, I've been unable to leave the country for the last three and a half years, and my stock has run out. I brought back three in 2019, and what I thought was the...
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    The big difference in the electric terminology and installation regulations and practice in each country!

    I checked out every tape on offer at the recent Exeter Elex/Toolfair, and found just all metric one - a 5m Stanley, although another supplier sais they would be selling them in the UK 'soon'.
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    The big difference in the electric terminology and installation regulations and practice in each country!

    One thing I don't understand is why it's still almost impossible to find a tape measure in the UK that doesn't have imperial measurements on it alongside the metric ones, some 50+ years after we 'went metric'. A tape measure that you can't use either way up dives me nuts.
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    Red text

    Whose bright idea is the red text? Not brilliant on an orange field.
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    Is it safe to plug 2 extension leads into a double wall socket?

    It's a room where someone sleeps, so it's a bedroom. Minimum standards were set in the Parker Morris report in around 1963. Anything built after this should have more than one socket in a bedroom.
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    Is it safe to plug 2 extension leads into a double wall socket?

    There's no further risk with plugging two extension leads into a double socket over that with just one, but the real issue of concern here is why is there only one socket in a bedroom? This suggests that the wiring may be extremely dated (from the '60s?) and lack such things as RCD protection, etc.
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    What equation can be used here to find the value of the capacitor?

    Reading that question took me back about 50 years!
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    External Consumer Unit

    If you're looking for quality, use Vector II from Hager. A strong, well designed enclosure, which I've fitted many dozens of, without any failures, apart from the one that was mounted on a wall that was demolished by a runaway truck.
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    Fitting bolt in fitting

    Agreed, but we shouldn't have to. See second sentence of nicebutdim's post above.
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    Good Morning Thread - Come say good morning, tell us what you've got on today. :)

    Followed by two 'how the episodes were made' on BBC 3, for those who aren't interested in the freak show following Dr Who on 1.
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    Loop into Fan

    An alternative to the triple pole isolator is to fit a switched FCU into the supply to the bathroom light circuit. This provides the necessary isolation and the often specified 3A fuse. Downside is that the fan can't be isolated and the light remain on, or, alternatively, the upside is that the...
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    Henley block

    More important than torque, is to settle the strands of the cable as you tighten the screws. Pity that a few more meter installers aren't familiar with this process.
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    Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

    It does. Any sign of air vents that might be blocked? I've traced loads of cases of poor IR down to these junction boxes. Usually down to them being full of damp cobwebs, up on a beam in some agricultural outbuilding. Quick cure was to clean it out and to pack it full of a red plasticine like...
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    Advice for repair dehumdifier cable

    Is that where the grommet/protector piece was when the fault occurred? It's supposed to be located in the cut out in the casing is, to protect the cable from the sharp metal edge.
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    Medical Question

    Batteries have the three green LEDs on them, so I don't think it can be too many years old .
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    Incoming size cable ??

    There's also the losses in that 50m sub main to be paid for. Small amounts, but they build up over the years, especially if there are heavy loads for long periods, such as heat pumps or EV charging.
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    Medical Question

    Just as well I didn't get carried away last Friday, and invest in a cordless SDS drill (the only everyday sparky tool I don't have in cordless). A neighbour of mine called in yesterday and presented me with a free 36V Bosch SDS, with one 4A good battery, a 18/36 volt fast charger and a second 4A...
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    Adapting a cooker point

    Have never used anything else. Room to dress 2 x 10mm2 T&E properly. Both flush metal boxes and surface boxes are available.
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    Non payment and sign off

    Worked with plenty of builders over the years, but only ever worked for one. Always let me get on with it my way, using my designs, and paid up promptly when I presented them with my invoice. Only odd thing was the cheques I received were genuinely from an account in the name of Messrs Bodgitt...
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    Hotpoint oven fault

    Is there an indicator lamp associated with the thermostat? Most ovens have a red light tht goes on or off, depending on whether the elements are being fed power or not. If the red light is cycling on and off, and it doesn't reach the desired temperature, then it's probably the 'stat at fault If...

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