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  1. MaintenanceSpark

    Day 4 Thread 4 - scared stiff as an apprentice

    When I was a 16 year old apprentice in 2008 there were two situations that scared me stiff that I’ll never forget and I thought I’d share and see if anyone else has any stories from their apprenticeship days. 1) I was tasked with changing the lamps in floodlights that shone on a hotels name...
  2. Pete999

    Blanking off unused cables stories

    When I were a Lad, many Moon ago, when I was an apprentic, worked an d lived in Bath, most of the work in those days for a jobbing Sparks, was in the local area Great Pulteney Street, Henrietta Street, only those in the know will recall the area, I got sent (I was only 17 ) to a house in GPS...
  3. Pete999

    Stories of working in rough dwellings, both Private and Social housing.

    I worked in some real dung holes whilst rewiring a local Council estate in South Twerton in Bath, you could work in one on a pair of Semis real nice people, move next door to a stinking hovel, got taken to the Council de lousing depot more than once, makes you wonder how some people could live...
  4. Pete999

    Lightening experiences anyone got any stories?

    Just been reviewing some photographs I took whilst serving in Cyprus, Troodos, to be exact. Troodos is situated above the cloud line, or where I was stationed was, which was about 6000 feet above sea level. I was always taught that lightening never traveled in an upwards direction, this was so...
  5. C

    Public liability insurance stories

    Hello chaps I am renewing my insurance and would like to know of any stories which ended well with regards to any claims... if so can tell me your insurer. touch wood none so far on my front but there will be a day, i am skeptical as £60 notes for 2 million i find very hard to believe if things...
  6. Pete999

    Working away from home stories

    Bored, waiting to go out for Beer and Curry, reminded me of a time when I was working in Pakistan, working for the Government afforded me a few privileges,one which was close to my heart was the British High Commission club, basically a place to go for Beer, Curry and pool as well as Tennis if...
  7. Pete999

    Work Stories

    Sat here minding my own business, thinking about past glories, get the picture? good. I was on a posting to Cyprus up in the Mountains so it wasn't very sunny, snow, never seen anything like it. Being probably the only bloke there who was handy with tools I was every ones Friend, well these...
  8. Pete999

    Old stories

    Thought you might be interested in something that happened to me in the early 1970, I was working on a mid sized construction site in Bristol. Me and two more guys were driving to site at about 06:30am, minding our own business when boom, thought we had been hit by a missile, but no it was a...
  9. R

    when I were a lad! apprenticeship stories

    We've all got a standout stories to tell when we served our time from blowing up a pair of snips to sleeping with the bosses daughter. what your story? One I always remember is I was only 16 and starting out. The spark who I was working with asked me to go check if there was any bonding in the...
    • RichardMoore
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    • apprenticeship stories when
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    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  10. La Poste

    Sellafield Stories

    Here's an interesting book just out for those that like this sort of thing, it's good to know things are safer now than they were back then, well at least I hope they are. "It was largely thanks to the courage of deputy general manager Tom Tuohy that the Lake District is still habitable today...
  11. S

    Got any funny 'Tools being nicked' stories?

    We've all suffered this, Cheers you slags. Anyway, a plasterer told me this one, he was working in a downstairs room, in someones house, with his mixing drill lying on the floor, plugged in near the front door (open). He notices it moving slowly along the floor towards the door, you get the...
    • Silly Sausage
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    • being electricians' talk funny stories
    • Replies: 22
    • Forum: Electrician Talk Forum
  12. P

    horror stories

    hi everybody, any body out there as un lucky as me i.e. going to jobs that are shall we say sub standard and trying to explain to customers that they may have to pay twice for the same job but this time to relevent standards and of course safe?.
    • pod67
    • Thread
    • aus electricians' talk stories
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Australia
  13. O

    Any success stories from lads who've re-trained as sparks?

    Hi, just wondered if anyone here has a success story about what you used to do for a living, how you changed it, and what you do now?With so much negativity from sparks suggesting there isn't the levels of work there once was, I wondered how people who took the plunge anyway are getting on in...
  14. P

    bizarre news stories

    Keep them clean though as its in Chit chat and not the pub :D
  15. EoinConway

    Good to see Positive stories like this being reported

    Caterpillar
    • EoinConway
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    • aus being electricians' talk positive stories
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Australia
  16. M

    horror stories

    Can anyone who has cut themselves while stripping an SWA cable please reply here. If you could post a pic of the scar or cut that would be great.;)
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